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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - she is using it as the Hindi word. She has Indian friends. My concern was it could make her appear racist. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Yawn[/quote]

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