I say to Steve White that I also cannot understand the logic of the questions about showers and cold/warm climates with reference to shoes; but I can explain that not taking your shoes off when entering a Russian house is seen as a gross act of disrespect. According to Russians such behaviour spreads "sand and small dirt" (and perhaps worse) around house interiors. And I say to Rita that, amazing as it may seem to you, Americans and Europeans wander about in their own and other people's homes without taking their shoes off! The proof, as you correctly say, is in the movies. This is a genuine cultural rift that may never be breached!

Thanks for the funny answers Talking about warm climate, i meant that people, can not take off their shoes and change dress. But if you walk at home in the same shoes as on the street, everywhere will be sand or small dirt. This is a slightly unpleasant sensation for bare feet, i think) It seemed to me that the films are based on real life At the heart of

I'd like to have a go at correcting this, but I don't know what it means. :D Is this question about people, or about people-in-movies. You say "people in ... movies". It'd certainly be fun to speculate philosophically about movie-people who live in movie-US/Europe and either do or don't take off their movie-shoes when they take a movie-shower. Anything that you don't see happening on-screen is fair game for the imagination (including what they do or don't do in the shower with their shoes). Or do you mean real-life people, and you're basing your knowledge of what real-life US/European people do based on what you've seen in US/European movies? I'm puzzled about how not taking off shoes would be a function of a warm climate. Wouldn't it be a function of a cold climate? I'm puzzled how you connect "people not taking off their shoes" with what's on their feet after a shower. One way I can connect those logically is if "don't take off their shoes" means that they NEVER take off their shoes. Therefore they shower with them on, therefore that's the reason they can't "walk barefoot after a shower". Or do you mean that they dry their feet as quickly as possible and get those shoes and socks back on. And THAT's why they can't (or don't) "walk barefoot after a shower". If I could understand the intent of the concepts here, I'd be able to make a stab at encoding them into language. :)

Something tells me they take shower with their shoes on

Rita, I guess, the streets are also quite clean there! :)