>I was turned away from an Immigration office in the Philippines, because I was wearing flip-flops (my normal shoes, when not barefoot)...guess they considered it disrespectful.
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Yes - that seems to be the sort of the idea some
cruceños (people from Santa Cruz, Bolivia) have, too.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)