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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For many of us, it's a cultural issue. I'm Korean, and we would never call a grownup (or a teacher, boss, anyone of a superior status, someone you don't know very well) by their first name. There are people whom I've known for decades, including close friends of my parents, whose first names I don't know because I call them by the honorific. Not saying this way is better or worse, but in most Asian cultures, it would be considered extremely rude for a child to call a grownup by their first name.[/quote] Forgot to add that, as a result, my kids call their friends' parents So-and-so's Mommy or So-and-so's Daddy and know that they're not allowed to call a grownup by the first name. I don't like it when their friends call me by my first name but generally don't make a big deal about it.[/quote]
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