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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In my personal experience, people from the lower middle class tend to address adults by their first names (and the adults encourage this). In UMC families, adults are addressed by "Mr. and Mrs. so and so" This could also be a cultural phenomenon, however, not just socioeconomic.[/quote] I think this is more of a generational and regional thing. For adults I know well (like my mother in law), or who are close to my age (coworkers, neighbors), I refer to them as their first name. For adults much older (senior citizens at church or whatever), I tend to refer to them as "Mr. or Mrs. so and so" (I also tend to do this with childhood friend's parents just out of habit, even if I know them well). For people who I know well who are hung up on formality (like my father-in-law, who insists his grandchildren call him "grandfather") I say "Mr. Blah Blah Blah."[/quote]
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