Why do Indian people always..

katona44 said:

lol, 1 indian was calling me "mom" ,after i told him that i'm a man he called me "sir"

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Should I believe you?I don't think Indians are that dumb...

I find it hilarious that this thread has become an anti-American, anti-Western type of thread. So much ignorance and jadedness. I won't be mean, though. Suffice to say I am extremely grateful to live in the "repressed" West. LOL @ repressed.

Search the word "Dear" in this link and learn about the protocols used in the highest office of the USA:
The word "Dear" has a special meaning attached to it -- it shows that though a person has become one of the highest officials of any country, even the USA, it is always OK to begin a conversation with him/her with the word "Dear".

It shows that the conversation is between two good humans and it (the one/one chat, official or otherwise) still concerns meeting of 2 hearts more than 2 brains -- at least when you begin the conversation...

This is just one example of using the word "Dear" as a conversation happening between 2 people however big they are or one of them is... it's being respectful & also being humane, caring in a nice way...



I don't understand what makes a person so jumpy when someone says such nice respectful and caring words like "Dear" or "Sir"... is that too much consistent influence of the dark paranoid side of this world where such nice words are only interpreted as something leading to the bed or to a master-slave relationship?

Grow up and understand why "some" great people are always respectful to the world around them. Not because English isn't their first language but because they know how to be nice and respectful to all others as it is taught to them to be so through the generations by their wise elders. You can still find a great meaning encapsulated within those 2 (and many more) great words.

I invite you to India to especially learn more about what the real Indian culture is all about! Prosper and do visit our dear country some day, you will really understand what the REAL abundance is all about!

God Bless!

Indians have got respect by brought up..........so its quite natural,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,am an Indian........................

There's one thing to say "Dear Mr. Smith" to start an email/letter and there's another thing to say "I will do as you said, dear".

I'm fine with someone calling me sir or dear even though we don't do that in my country. I just got an e-mail from the support of Canadian company and it started like this:

Dear sir,

They're being polite just like Indians so +1 for that

It's the Indian word for "dude".

Not always:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQoVSc_XzU

SpellZ said:

say 'Dear' to me? I swear, every Indian freelancer I get... They call me dear.. ? Is that like an appropriate thing to do?

I.E. "We wil finish it on time dear", "thank you dear"

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It's the proper business salutation, they teach it in most college writing classes. Also in closing before the signature, best regards is usually written.

Dear readers,

We have seen YOU use dear as a salutation. For ex: you say, "Dear Mr. Smith!" But with your weird user IDs like Pervert and Octopus, what do you expect us to call you? Dear Mr. Octopus? or Dear Mr. Pervert? Well, we leave it at "Dear" because we don't want to sound weird (although you are).

I hope you now understand why we make the effort to make you feel good by calling you dear.

Well dear, now that you know what I'm talking about, I rest my case.

PS: Moderator - Dear, please don't ban me. I'm not a racist and I have nothing against the West.

I would say dear or Sir is better than the word .. which the westerns use..

Check this video :


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No offense , just clarifying your doubt ....... dear friend

notoriouskim said:

Why do they assume everyone on the internet is male? Here's a hint -- don't call people sir if you don't know their gender. Everytime I receive an email that begins with "Dear Sir" I delete it on the spot.

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So you are female. I got it dear MAAM. I dont know why I am so intelligent:disg08:

So, what do you guys think we should call you in mails, just "Hello Mr.John" is enough?

I am pissed too. Women call me "dear" all the time ...

I am in the US and do business with a lot of people from a lot of different countries.

I follow their protocol, they can call me dear, sir, fruitcake... I personally do not care.

What makes them comfortable makes me comfortable.

People communicate different ways based on how they were raised.

Jeevs said:

Clothing is a completely different thing,its all about comfort level.You dress up in what you feel comfortable.Language and way of talking is something that is with you from the very beginning.Correct me if I'm wrong.I was not grown up wearing traditional Indian clothes,but with Indian traditions.

m still on my point..its just a terrible mixture of Indian n western culture....they fail to covey what they "actually" want to say.Coz English language don't provide such liberty.

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I agree with you 100% English does not really provide the liberty to say what we can say easily in Indian Languages. I dont mean anything against English but thats the way it is.

Also traditioinal influence on speach is comepletly different when compared to clothing etc. as these are some of the most prominant things we are tought as we grew up and these are the values set and accepted in our day to day life.

Though clothing is left up to you, here we dont still accept roaming in Thongs (Though we accept it on screen -- Sorry.. we love it)

Indians use Dear word because its part of our letter writing education.

In HINDI we start a letter with the salutation PRIYA MITRA (DEAR FRIEND), So, people who arent aware of the current english communication trends tends to use the word DEAR.

- I dont know about the current trend in schools, but in 90,s years of my primary school, we were taught to use the word Dear while writing letter to some one. Dear Sir, Dear Ma'am etc.

- If you have worked in a Non-voice call center in India then you know that its part of the email writing training. Dear Customer or Dear XXX (customers name).

Further, as many people said above, we use this word to show respect to the clients.

:fingersx:Seriously Jeevs Awesome... But what I guess they mean is not in the biggining of a letter though. They are concerned that many of our noobs do say dear at the end of a sentance which is truly awkward.

But I guess, I got what you mean kooodos

Jeevs said:

^^This

Have a look at this-

We can conclude 3 things now
1.BHW is not professional and is noob.
2.Poor English.
3.It is operated from India.

True???

Case solved!

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I've never been called dear, but get a lot of sir

My Indian officemate have high, low and hallow tone when speaking. I never recall anyone from our office writing dear in the letter but I hear them swear a lot maybe they live in the wrong side of the neighborhood back there.