Why do Russians take their shoes off at the entrance
Why do Russians take their shoes off at the entrance
Entering the dwelling, a Russian person always takes pictures footwear and puts on slippers. Virtually every housewife has several pairs of spare slippers for of incoming to visit people. Coming to any more civilized country, Russian people are surprised how one can walk in shoes along the streets of the city, and then in the same shoes on their own home.
Compatriots also do not understand how you canlie on the lawn in clothes, sit on the steps or curb of the sidewalk and do not be afraid to get smeared. The reason is that even in large densely populated cities, not all streets are covered with asphalt. If there is even asphalt, then looking at it, you might think that several tanks have recently passed through it. In order to clean the whole territory of the city, special equipment is needed that is not only very expensive, but simply can not pass along the clumsy asphalt our cities. Naturally, such equipment is not intended for cleaning in unpaved territory. In cities, urns are equipped only with crowded places and the center of the city. If you go a little deeper into any sleeping area, then in order to throw out the garbage, the urn can be searched for about 10 minutes. Of course, there are not so many patient people. As a result, the garbage that did not hit the urn, just lying under his feet, and the person carries it into the house on his shoes. There is such a profession in the country as a janitor, but does the janitor's salary encourage labor zeal? And hardly anyone will check the results of the work every day, so the janitors for nothing uncompleted cleaning of the territory does not threaten. Many of them understand perfectly well that there are not so many people who want to work in their place, so the employer can not choose. If such jobs were better paid, then there would be more willing people. However, in addition to scanty wages, there are not many street cleaners in one district of the city. After all, why recruit a large staff of workers, if you still completely clear of debris the area is impossible. Russian people boldly throw cigarette butts, garbage and even spit from balconies. What does this happen 24 hours a day. Having even a huge staff of wipers, round the clock monitoring of the appearance of new debris on the street is unlikely to be within reach. So how here not to shoot footwear at entrance in the room, if on shoes you can bring not only dirt, garbage, but also the remnants of chewing gum, spittle and the like.
