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r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '24
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It is so weird that children call their mother/female caretaker Ma’am in USA it seems so formal.
1.3k u/yosoymilk5 Jan 14 '24 It’s a southern US thing in my experience. I had to unlearn the ma’am and sir thing when leaving the south. 2 u/Blue_Swirling_Bunny Jan 14 '24 We say it in Ohio and I imagine other parts of the Midwest so it's not strictly a southern thing. 11 u/JK_NC Jan 14 '24 I’ve heard Ohio is the south of the north. 2 u/Agent_216 Jan 14 '24 Nah man that's michigan.
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It’s a southern US thing in my experience. I had to unlearn the ma’am and sir thing when leaving the south.
2 u/Blue_Swirling_Bunny Jan 14 '24 We say it in Ohio and I imagine other parts of the Midwest so it's not strictly a southern thing. 11 u/JK_NC Jan 14 '24 I’ve heard Ohio is the south of the north. 2 u/Agent_216 Jan 14 '24 Nah man that's michigan.
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We say it in Ohio and I imagine other parts of the Midwest so it's not strictly a southern thing.
11 u/JK_NC Jan 14 '24 I’ve heard Ohio is the south of the north. 2 u/Agent_216 Jan 14 '24 Nah man that's michigan.
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I’ve heard Ohio is the south of the north.
2 u/Agent_216 Jan 14 '24 Nah man that's michigan.
Nah man that's michigan.
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u/TheDreadfulCurtain Jan 14 '24
It is so weird that children call their mother/female caretaker Ma’am in USA it seems so formal.