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⌈ Secret Post #2071 ⌋

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Re: Stupid questions from non-natives (Part Two)

[omorka]

2) It used to be the case in the '50s and '60s that high schools held a number of formal or semi-formal dances over the course of the school year. Senior Promenade (later shortened to Prom) was the most important because it was the last one the students would go to as high school students; it was the final hurrah of high school social life before everyone either settled into manufacturing jobs, marriage, and children, when there would be few chances for formal dancing, or went off to college, where they'd be dancing with a completely different group of people far from home.

Now many (not all; some still have a full dance schedule, but in my experience this is no longer common) US high schools just have two or three dances a year - homecoming, senior prom, and sometimes either a Spring Fling or a junior prom - and some of them don't even do homecoming, so the primary importance of prom is that it's the only chance the students really have to dress way up in front of their peers. It retains most of its emotional and social resonance from its end-of-an-era significance from previous decades, as preserved in various nostalgic media, especially movies.


3) In the US, at least, calling someone by their first name implies that you are either peers or they are in your employ; the banker gets to call his driver "Richard" but the driver has to call him "Mr. Nixon." Calling your teacher by their first name is a way of stating "You're not the boss of me; I don't have to respect you." Occasionally a student will do it to me precisely as a sign of disrespect, a way of forced-peering me.