My Asian husband does this. I thought it was funny when I first heard it. It’s cultural.

Anonymous wrote:Mama and Papi literally mean “mother and father”. My guess is that started as encouragement for the CHILD to say mama and papi. It ends up literally confusing because suddenly EVERYONE is Mama and Papi, which is exactly what you don’t want your child thinking

And yet nobody who actually uses these terms gets confused.

I’m glad someone brought this up! I heard someone from Texas calling her daughter mama, and I was so confused.

Mama and Papi literally mean “mother and father”. My guess is that started as encouragement for the CHILD to say mama and papi. It ends up literally confusing because suddenly EVERYONE is Mama and Papi, which is exactly what you don’t want your child thinking

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is stupid, please stop and assimilate!

Assimilate = act like a WASP? Wasp being the only right way to do everything?

Yup.

Read the NYT, vote Dem, act WASP.

Get with the plan.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is stupid, please stop and assimilate!

Assimilate = act like a WASP? Wasp being the only right way to do everything?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

Are you calling me a poor? You're wrong sweetie. I'm a lawyer.

There are poor lawyers.

LMAO, yes, the poor ones are probably the ones who don't have a good understanding of how punctuation should be used and how it can effect a sentence's meaning. For example, it should be, "You're wrong, Sweetie." There needs to be a comma after "wrong." A similar sentence would be, "You're pretty, Sarah." How much sense does, "You're pretty Sarah" make? That looks so wrong!

MayaJ wrote:I am European, and I do it all the time. It's cultural.

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It’s v common in my E European country of origin.

It looks like it his custom exists all over the world, except among uptight WASP Americans

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

Good for pp for knowing Latino culture and class differences. My upper middle class Latina mother would die if she hears me call my daughter "mami." She does use m'ja with my sister and I though.

It should be ‘with my sister and me’.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's normal in black or Latino communities to call children mama, mami, pop, or papi. I personally call my dd mama pretty much every day. It's only odd if you're not familiar with different cultures I guess.

This is more socioeconomic than race/ethnic. You rarely hear children called mama/papa among my middle to upper income hispanic and black friends (and I'm hispanic). i have, however, heard it among family members in lower socioeconomic classes.

Good for pp for knowing Latino culture and class differences. My upper middle class Latina mother would die if she hears me call my daughter "mami." She does use m'ja with my sister and I though.

Mija is very specific to Mexico though. Even poor people use it in Mexico.