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[quote=Anonymous]It's a term of endearment in Spanish to call a small child "mama"/"mami/mamita" or "papa/papi/papito". I don't know if all Latino cultures do it, but those from the Hispanic Caribbean definitely do. I see a lot of people posting that it's common in black communities, as well, which I think may be a NY/northeast thing---there are a lot of Latinos (particularly Puerto Ricans/Caribbeans) in the northeast, so maybe it was born out of the amalgamation of the Latino and black-American cultures and it just took off from there. If you listen to music dating back decades, you hear both black and white people using "mama" and "daddy" as terms of endearment---but for adults.  I called my daughter "mama" from birth, almost exclusively, so my son (who is 16 months older than her) thought her actual name was mama for the longest time! He was calling us BOTH mama at one point. LOL. Eventually, he figured out it was just a nickname and we hardly call her mama anymore. What I find interesting, and the reason I even came across this post, is that I've heard women calling BOYS "mama". Not Latinos, though---presumably white Americans and/or Europeans. I still have yet to figure THAT one out![/quote]

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