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To: RealMuLan who wrote (72963)	2/10/2003 9:40:59 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>Chinese children should never call their parents by name, not even first name. and call people one generation older than themselves as Uncle or aunt even if do not really know them. > Same in India. Whenever, the Credit Card companies ask for my mother's maiden name, I pause for a moment. Not used to referring to my parents by name. Maybe nothing Confucian about it. And Indians typically add a suffix for respect, such as "Jee". So it is Uncle Jee or Aunty Jee. -Arun

To: RealMuLan who wrote (72963)	2/11/2003 3:07:01 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yiwu, the 'first name' is a recent cultural phenomenon in the anglo cultures. There used to be quite serious levels of formality. Formality was an art form. Now, formality has been chucked out. It's gone excessively the other way - the good manners baby was chucked out with the stuffed-shirt formality. I grew up as an early adherent to the first name culture [my parents being somewhat avante-garde]. It was with full respect for those so referred to [which was only in my family and extended family - other adults were Mr, Mrs, Sir etc as were older people than myself when I became an adult] Plenty of people used the Aunty, or Uncle honorific too. Parents were Mum, Dad [Mummy and Daddy when under about age 7], not their first name, but first names came in when we became adults. My mother in law and father in law went from "Mr and Mrs Pendray" to "Matt and Betty" after we married [the transition takes a bit of practise]. Now there's a bit of a mixture. You'll hear Mr and Mrs, Sir, Madam, Gidday Fred, or simply "Hey yous!" Mqurice [you may call me Sir].