In this time I will talk about Chilean and Japanese manners inside the house. In Chile, people walk inside the house with shoes, or something like that, even when they enter to the bathroom or go outside to the courtyard. Maybe for us, this is something absolutely normal and it doesn't seems impolite. But in Japan it's completely different, I mean, it's something very impolite and you won't be allowed to do that in a Japanese house. In Japan, if you want to enter to someone's house, before you come in,at doorway you must take off your shoes and replace them with slippers provided by the host.This rule applies with the bathroom too, because there are bathroom shoes or slippers that you must use if you want to go there, I mean, you just replace your slippers at bathroom's entrance( or you putin if you walkin bare feet or socks). They do this because in Japan exist a lot of care and concience about tidiness, differences between dirty and clean areas, etc. And keeping clean and tidy places like your house is something really important for Japaneses. So as the house is considered a clean area, you mustn't contamine it with the shoes that you used for walk outside. The same for the bathroom because is considered like a different part of the house. So you need to put bath slippers to go in.
I chose that example because I find very interesting and cool the importance and how Japanese people care about tidiness and the diferences between clean and dirty spaces, even in all areas of their houses!. I didn't have this kind of experience before. So I think that differences between cultures sometimes are very big
Lol, I thought you would talk about your adventures at Ecuador, excellent comparison by the way Jeezus
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