We Don't Take Off Our Shoes In the House Redux
Last year I wrote about one class where the song was titled: "We Don't Take Our Shoes Off In the House".
I was a bit irritated by this lesson, because really people in the West do take their shoes off in the house. And this was just so wrong. And another example of stereotyping of foreigners in the text book. And yadda f'n yadda yadda.
Then I went back to the states and was told repeatedly to put my shoes on while in the house, and I realized the text book was right.
We don't take our shoes off in the house. At least not like Koreans take their shoes off in the house.
I was thinking about this today as I was crawling across the floor, careful to keep my weight on my knees because I didn't want my shoes to touch the floor and have the magic Korean Shoes-In-The-House Killer Laser Beams zap me for the simple dumb reason that I forgot to turn off the hot water heater and only remembered after I had put my shoes on and was about to walk out the front door.
I was a bit irritated by this lesson, because really people in the West do take their shoes off in the house. And this was just so wrong. And another example of stereotyping of foreigners in the text book. And yadda f'n yadda yadda.
Then I went back to the states and was told repeatedly to put my shoes on while in the house, and I realized the text book was right.
We don't take our shoes off in the house. At least not like Koreans take their shoes off in the house.
I was thinking about this today as I was crawling across the floor, careful to keep my weight on my knees because I didn't want my shoes to touch the floor and have the magic Korean Shoes-In-The-House Killer Laser Beams zap me for the simple dumb reason that I forgot to turn off the hot water heater and only remembered after I had put my shoes on and was about to walk out the front door.