12 year old girl constantly using the word “beta”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

It's weird that teen Indian kids use this word - it's typically something a parent calls their child.

Yeah. This is weird. My mother in law calls my husband “beta”. She also calls my son (her grandson) “beta” and my daughter “Beti”. It’s basically a form of “honey” when talking to someone a generation below you. Teens may be called beta by adults but I have never heard them refer to each other this way. Maybe there is a new subculture but I know Indian kids ranging from my own (late teens) to my niece and nephews (youngest is 5). None of them use “beta”.

My DD went through a period where she would call her Indian friends and me ‘beta’. As in, ‘Hello beta’. It came and went quickly. We’re Indian but do not speak Hindi at home.

As for OP, I don’t think it’s racist for her kid to use that word. It’s a term of endearment.

Ok thanks. The other thing she does is say it with an accent.

Which is more problematic. She can use the word, but say it as someone with her background would say it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

It's weird that teen Indian kids use this word - it's typically something a parent calls their child.

Yeah. This is weird. My mother in law calls my husband “beta”. She also calls my son (her grandson) “beta” and my daughter “Beti”. It’s basically a form of “honey” when talking to someone a generation below you. Teens may be called beta by adults but I have never heard them refer to each other this way. Maybe there is a new subculture but I know Indian kids ranging from my own (late teens) to my niece and nephews (youngest is 5). None of them use “beta”.

My DD went through a period where she would call her Indian friends and me ‘beta’. As in, ‘Hello beta’. It came and went quickly. We’re Indian but do not speak Hindi at home.

As for OP, I don’t think it’s racist for her kid to use that word. It’s a term of endearment.

Ok thanks. The other thing she does is say it with an accent.

She is trying to say a Hindi word with proper pronunciation?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your children should stop listening to andrew tate and other red pill podcasts.

You have failed as a parent apparently.

What 12 year old girl knows who Andrew Tate is? The only way would be her mom
listening on the radio.

Nobody here listens to Andrew Tate or ever would, but the term beta male pre-dates him. It's a lack of masculinity and was a fine insult until he apparently ruined it for everyone? Back in the 80s we just called everyone "gay" so beta is an improvement at the sentiment (albeit terribly insulting) that is being conveyed.

also, I don't think a 12 yo knows this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

It's weird that teen Indian kids use this word - it's typically something a parent calls their child.

Yeah. This is weird. My mother in law calls my husband “beta”. She also calls my son (her grandson) “beta” and my daughter “Beti”. It’s basically a form of “honey” when talking to someone a generation below you. Teens may be called beta by adults but I have never heard them refer to each other this way. Maybe there is a new subculture but I know Indian kids ranging from my own (late teens) to my niece and nephews (youngest is 5). None of them use “beta”.

My DD went through a period where she would call her Indian friends and me ‘beta’. As in, ‘Hello beta’. It came and went quickly. We’re Indian but do not speak Hindi at home.

As for OP, I don’t think it’s racist for her kid to use that word. It’s a term of endearment.

Ok thanks. The other thing she does is say it with an accent.

Which is more problematic. She can use the word, but say it as someone with her background would say it.

Found the liberal Karen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

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I meant W school

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Anonymous wrote:Please explain yourself, OP. Beta is a Greek letter. It's not an "Indian" word.

It's both. And beta is being used as opposite of alpha by the young ones nowadays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please explain yourself, OP. Beta is a Greek letter. It's not an "Indian" word.

It's both. And beta is being used as opposite of alpha by the young ones nowadays.

I asked my 7th grader, she said it was used a lot last year and it wasn’t used as an Indian phrase.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

THIS!!!

Holy crap, I can't believe what morons most of you are.

It has nothing to do with Andrew Tate, it's not being used as the alternative to alpha.

There's this thing called social media and an app called TikTok.... this may blow your mind, but there's a culture on there of teens sharing humorous parts of their lives and adopting each others' slang. This is where the INDIAN term beta comes in. I'm INDIAN myself and yeah I'm pretty aware that there's no INDIAN language. Beta transcends just one language from the Indian subcontinent....we can say terms are American, right? As opposed to British English or Australian English. It's fine. Do we understand that? There are times when we can characterize a word as deriving from a whole ass nation, and this is one of those times. Shame on you @$$holes criticizing the White OP for characterizing the term that way. Calling beta a strictly Hindi term is way MORE moronic, actually. OP, there is nothing wrong with calling it Indian. There are Indian people who may be offended (but probably wouldn't be, because they tend to have more sense than to get offended by things like this) if you ascribe beta to one language or dialect. This sort of pedantry is what keeps people from wanting to learn about other cultures.

You'll often see in videos of Jamie Oliver cooking and using the word "pukka" (the way he means it is something like "top rate")- let's get right on canceling him, too.

Beta is a term of endearment for a child. OP, your kid is doing nothing wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

THIS!!!

Holy crap, I can't believe what morons most of you are.

It has nothing to do with Andrew Tate, it's not being used as the alternative to alpha.

There's this thing called social media and an app called TikTok.... this may blow your mind, but there's a culture on there of teens sharing humorous parts of their lives and adopting each others' slang. This is where the INDIAN term beta comes in. I'm INDIAN myself and yeah I'm pretty aware that there's no INDIAN language. Beta transcends just one language from the Indian subcontinent....we can say terms are American, right? As opposed to British English or Australian English. It's fine. Do we understand that? There are times when we can characterize a word as deriving from a whole ass nation, and this is one of those times. Shame on you @$$holes criticizing the White OP for characterizing the term that way. Calling beta a strictly Hindi term is way MORE moronic, actually. OP, there is nothing wrong with calling it Indian. There are Indian people who may be offended (but probably wouldn't be, because they tend to have more sense than to get offended by things like this) if you ascribe beta to one language or dialect. This sort of pedantry is what keeps people from wanting to learn about other cultures.

You'll often see in videos of Jamie Oliver cooking and using the word "pukka" (the way he means it is something like "top rate")- let's get right on canceling him, too.

Beta is a term of endearment for a child. OP, your kid is doing nothing wrong.

Yawn

[Anonymous]

Kids pick up quirks. She'll stop using it somewhere along the way. But if you think it's an OCD type thing, have her checked for strep. One of my kids started using a certain phrase over and over all day long and it was a symptom of strep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

THIS!!!

Holy crap, I can't believe what morons most of you are.

It has nothing to do with Andrew Tate, it's not being used as the alternative to alpha.

There's this thing called social media and an app called TikTok.... this may blow your mind, but there's a culture on there of teens sharing humorous parts of their lives and adopting each others' slang. This is where the INDIAN term beta comes in. I'm INDIAN myself and yeah I'm pretty aware that there's no INDIAN language. Beta transcends just one language from the Indian subcontinent....we can say terms are American, right? As opposed to British English or Australian English. It's fine. Do we understand that? There are times when we can characterize a word as deriving from a whole ass nation, and this is one of those times. Shame on you @$$holes criticizing the White OP for characterizing the term that way. Calling beta a strictly Hindi term is way MORE moronic, actually. OP, there is nothing wrong with calling it Indian. There are Indian people who may be offended (but probably wouldn't be, because they tend to have more sense than to get offended by things like this) if you ascribe beta to one language or dialect. This sort of pedantry is what keeps people from wanting to learn about other cultures.

You'll often see in videos of Jamie Oliver cooking and using the word "pukka" (the way he means it is something like "top rate")- let's get right on canceling him, too.

Beta is a term of endearment for a child. OP, your kid is doing nothing wrong.

Oh geez, the point of PPs was that it is also used as not being alpha, and it could also be used as that Indian term, or it could be used as Larla Beta like as in Larla with a last name B (Greek alphabet)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

THIS!!!

Holy crap, I can't believe what morons most of you are.

It has nothing to do with Andrew Tate, it's not being used as the alternative to alpha.

There's this thing called social media and an app called TikTok.... this may blow your mind, but there's a culture on there of teens sharing humorous parts of their lives and adopting each others' slang. This is where the INDIAN term beta comes in. I'm INDIAN myself and yeah I'm pretty aware that there's no INDIAN language. Beta transcends just one language from the Indian subcontinent....we can say terms are American, right? As opposed to British English or Australian English. It's fine. Do we understand that? There are times when we can characterize a word as deriving from a whole ass nation, and this is one of those times. Shame on you @$$holes criticizing the White OP for characterizing the term that way. Calling beta a strictly Hindi term is way MORE moronic, actually. OP, there is nothing wrong with calling it Indian. There are Indian people who may be offended (but probably wouldn't be, because they tend to have more sense than to get offended by things like this) if you ascribe beta to one language or dialect. This sort of pedantry is what keeps people from wanting to learn about other cultures.

You'll often see in videos of Jamie Oliver cooking and using the word "pukka" (the way he means it is something like "top rate")- let's get right on canceling him, too.

Beta is a term of endearment for a child. OP, your kid is doing nothing wrong.

I’m not sure that’s right. I mean like the TikTok thing spreading it is probably right, but I watched the Netflix series Adolescence and it also explained boys getting demeaning terms like Beta off TikTok.

Then boys go down the rabbit hole of toxic masculinity and they become these incels; which is really scary!

It hard to explain. You just have to watch the series. It made me so glad I only have girls, after learning how the boys really are today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist.

Using the word “beta,” pronounced “beh-ta” was common at my kid’s W last year. It refers to the term of endearment for a generation younger than you in Hindi.

There are a lot of videos online of younger South Asian kids mimicking their parents or grandparents and making fun of their parents and the term “beta” comes up.

THIS!!!

Holy crap, I can't believe what morons most of you are.

It has nothing to do with Andrew Tate, it's not being used as the alternative to alpha.

There's this thing called social media and an app called TikTok.... this may blow your mind, but there's a culture on there of teens sharing humorous parts of their lives and adopting each others' slang. This is where the INDIAN term beta comes in. I'm INDIAN myself and yeah I'm pretty aware that there's no INDIAN language. Beta transcends just one language from the Indian subcontinent....we can say terms are American, right? As opposed to British English or Australian English. It's fine. Do we understand that? There are times when we can characterize a word as deriving from a whole ass nation, and this is one of those times. Shame on you @$$holes criticizing the White OP for characterizing the term that way. Calling beta a strictly Hindi term is way MORE moronic, actually. OP, there is nothing wrong with calling it Indian. There are Indian people who may be offended (but probably wouldn't be, because they tend to have more sense than to get offended by things like this) if you ascribe beta to one language or dialect. This sort of pedantry is what keeps people from wanting to learn about other cultures.

You'll often see in videos of Jamie Oliver cooking and using the word "pukka" (the way he means it is something like "top rate")- let's get right on canceling him, too.

Beta is a term of endearment for a child. OP, your kid is doing nothing wrong.

I’m not sure that’s right. I mean like the TikTok thing spreading it is probably right, but I watched the Netflix series Adolescence and it also explained boys getting demeaning terms like Beta off TikTok.

Then boys go down the rabbit hole of toxic masculinity and they become these incels; which is really scary!

It hard to explain. You just have to watch the series. It made me so glad I only have girls, after learning how the boys really are today.

PP you quoted. I know about beta in that context. I fully understand what that means. That's not what OP was talking about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids pick up quirks. She'll stop using it somewhere along the way. But if you think it's an OCD type thing, have her checked for strep. One of my kids started using a certain phrase over and over all day long and it was a symptom of strep.

Neurological changes from strep occur after the infection. Nothing to be done about it then.