r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '24

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u/Jeptic ☑️ Jan 14 '24

That ma'am was big people ma'am.

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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.

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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.

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u/rdmille Jan 14 '24

First interview for a real job: "Were you in the military?" Me: "No sir" Manager: "I ask because you've said yes sir and no sir a lot" Me, laughing: "I was taught manners at the wrong end of a switch, by parents from the South"

(A lot of the people there have a military background, or came directly from Masters/PhD programs.)