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On Mother; It's a Japanese Thing?
Topic Started: Sep 17 2005, 12:50 AM (1,182 Views)
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This is interesting...

http://www.sociology.org/content/vol005.001/smith-nomi.html

The assumption is that subsequent Japanese social bonding—teacher-student, supervisor-subordinate, etc.— is patterned after the primary mother-child experience.

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Interesting...

I've the impression that Cloud calling out for "mother" is rather natural. It's like when people are injured/in danger, they instinctively call out for their moms. Sorry, can't think of a better way to put it right now. *brain dead* :blush:
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BTW I also remembered that some married couples in Japan call each other "Father" and "Mother" (at least the Japanese exchange student told me), but they're not really the parent of each other.

I dunno why it was such a big deal in the LTD though.
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Ah yes. My parents call each other the way I call them. It's rather normal in Japanese/Chinese family.
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Ah yes. My parents call each other the way I call them. It's rather normal in Japanese/Chinese family.


Hey...! Same with my culture as well...but then again, I heard my ancestors are very closely related to the Chinese... :P
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Ah yes. My parents call each other the way I call them. It's rather normal in Japanese/Chinese family.


Same here. My parents call each other 'Ma' and 'Pa', respectively. You can rarely find married couples addressing each other using their first names. It's usually Mama and Papa--or in some cases, Daddy (or just Dy) and Mommy (or just My).
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Ah yes. My parents call each other the way I call them. It's rather normal in Japanese/Chinese family.


Same here. My parents call each other 'Ma' and 'Pa', respectivel. You can rarely find married couples addressing each other using thier first names. It's usually Mama and Papa--or in some cases, Daddy (or just Dy) and Mommy (or just My).

Ditto. I never really thought about it, but that's exactly what my parents call each other. It's just weird whenever I hear them use names in rare occasions like when there're guests around. It seemed like a habit that they got while into teaching the baby what to call them that never went away. Didn't know that it was a culture thing.
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Ditto. I never really thought about it, but that's exactly what my parents call each other. It's just weird whenever I hear them use names in rare occasions like when there're guests around. It seemed like a habit that they got while into teaching the baby what to call them that never went away. Didn't know that it was a culture thing.


Erms...well...it's not just my parents. In my culture, it's a "thing" people do comfortably, even out in public. Now, I do live in the US...and unless it's just different in the state I'm living in, I really don't see that too often with Americans...

OR...maybe I'm just not paying enough attention to my surrounding... :P
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Erms...well...it's not just my parents. In my culture, it's a "thing" people do comfortably, even out in public. Now, I do live in the US...and unless it's just different in the state I'm living in, I really don't see that too often with Americans...


Maybe it's another one of those Asian/Eastern things?
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Erms...well...it's not just my parents. In my culture, it's a "thing" people do comfortably, even out in public.

:huh: Even in public? Which country was that? In any case, I doubt that it's observed in the US.
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Hmmm, any American cleris people to give their input to?
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Well...

I have many African American friends who say 'mommy' when in distress. My best guy friend murmers 'mommy' when he is scared or sad. lol he's so cute when he does that. I live in a dominately african american area(Southern Maryland) and I've noticed that african american boyfriends and girlfriends sometimes call each other 'ma' or 'pa'.

Anyways...
It's normal for asain couples to call one other 'mother', 'mom', 'father', or 'dad'. My parents, my married relatives, and asian friend's parents all do that. I'm filipino, BTW.
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I'm Filipino and my mom calls my dad "daddy" and my dad calls her "mommy" :blush: . I've never heard them call each other by their first names. The same goes with my aunt and uncle and the parents of my friends. Maybe it's an Asian thing?
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I'm Filipino and my mom calls my dad "daddy" and my dad calls her "mommy" :blush: . I've never heard them call each other by their first names. The same goes with my aunt and uncle and the parents of my friends. Maybe it's an Asian thing?

heh, maybe.
To be very honest, I never really thought about this much until now. When I was a child, I thought it was a normal married couple thing to call each other mom or dad.
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Where I live, Mama and Papa are also colloquial terms used by close friends. I have a friend who calls me Mama Meme all the time, and it's not because I'm motherly or anything like that . :D Papa is also used to describe guys who are very good-looking. Like Cloud for example. When you call someone Papa, it means you think he is hot or a perfectly marriageable person. The term was first used only by the members of the third sex but after a while it became so common, everyone started using it as well.

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