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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I always call teachers and principals Mr/Miss/Mrs but they often first-name me uninvited. Incredibly rude.[/quote]

Do you call your attorney, accountant, architect, or banker Mr/Miss/Mrs.?  In the professional world I inhabited before going into teaching, most adults in business situations called each other by their first names. [/quote]

Different poster but when I meet someone for the first time I always call them Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms.  I do that here in the US and I use the same honorifics outside of the US (in the appropriate language, of course).  I would never presume to call someone by their first name until I was invited to do so.

For the most part, my observation has been that this is a perceived class issue where the people in the US who are the most strident about using first names all the time have an inferiority complex and are attempting to leverage themselves by 'bringing down' to their level the people they are addressing.  I don't see this same over-familiarity and attempts at control when I go outside of the US.  Which is interesting from a sociological perspective since the US is mostly 'class-less' compared to most of the non-US world.[/quote]

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