12 year old girl constantly using the word “beta”

[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.

[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.

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

Those are total opposites of each other.
You shouldn't use terms that you don't know to try to appear hip. It could get you into some situations.

[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.

That's the longest troll post I've ever seen! 9/10!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No this is a white girl using an Indian word.

I…don’t think that’s what is happening.

Yes it is. It’s an Indian word and my child is constantly using it and she’s not Indian.

So what. Nobody cares. Why does this bother you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No this is a white girl using an Indian word.

I…don’t think that’s what is happening.

Yes it is. It’s an Indian word and my child is constantly using it and she’s not Indian.

So what. Nobody cares. Why does this bother you.

Have you heard of cultural appropriation?

[Anonymous]

some words they use are so annoying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a slang word. They use it to mean the opposite of Alpha, that you’re weak or not assertive.

+1

It's not being used as an "Indian" word. And since India is home to many languages, I am not sure what you mean by "Indian" anyway. Do you mean Hindu, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, or...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Worked for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No this is a white girl using an Indian word.

I…don’t think that’s what is happening.

Yes it is. It’s an Indian word and my child is constantly using it and she’s not Indian.

So what. Nobody cares. Why does this bother you.

Have you heard of cultural appropriation?

Have you heard of the melting pot?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No this is a white girl using an Indian word.

I…don’t think that’s what is happening.

Yes it is. It’s an Indian word and my child is constantly using it and she’s not Indian.

So what. Nobody cares. Why does this bother you.

Have you heard of cultural appropriation?

Have you heard of the melting pot?

Only whites towards others. They never hope to melt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No this is a white girl using an Indian word.

I…don’t think that’s what is happening.

Yes it is. It’s an Indian word and my child is constantly using it and she’s not Indian.

So what. Nobody cares. Why does this bother you.

Have you heard of cultural appropriation?

Have you heard of the melting pot?

NP here. Do you have any idea how racist that metaphor is? As PP said, how many white people do you seeing being melted?