Why the British like to call the men"hi son!" If you call someone from China,they will be very angry.lol
I mean some people say "Hi son! " by greeting, not for their real son.

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Why   the British like to call the men"hi son!"   If you call someone from China,they will be very angry.lol
I mean some people say "Hi son! " by greeting, not for their real son.

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I agree this is a cultural thing. It's like westerners don't like being called "foreigners"all the time by the Chinese.

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@anny: In Russia it is certainly impolite to call someone "son" or "daughter", if he or she is not your child. Maybe it was OK sometime in the past, but definitely not today.

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It's normal when older man call a jounger as ''son''. The same is in Finland, Russia. Also they may say "doughter"  to a girl/woman.

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There could be two reasons for this.

1. A man is referring to his son as "son". For example, my father does this with me.

2. An older man is referring to a (much) younger man as "son". This is simply an old-fashioned, informal and friendly form of address.

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