Shoes sit outside the house of a Bosnian family in St. Louis. Bosnians usually remove their shoes before entering a house, a custom originating with the Turks, who ruled Bosnia for 500 years. A Saint Louis University sociologist who studies the Bosnian community says that almost a decade after the first 13 Bosnian families arrived in St. Louis, they now number nearly 50,000.
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