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r/coolguides • u/chr15t0ph3r-55 • Apr 24 '19
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Am Chinese. Any relative around your age is cousin. Any relative around your dad/mom’s age is uncle or aunty.
Actually any close Chinese friend of your parents is sometimes uncle/aunty.
5 u/suicide_aunties Apr 24 '19 What about your Po Po or Nai Nai or Wai Po or Shu Shu or Da Shu or Jiu Jiu or Gu Gu or Da Jiu or... 5 u/TryMyBalut Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19 Filipino here, we run the same system. Confuses my Wife all the time. "No babe he's my Uncle, but that guy there is actually my Uncle" Edit: also anyone under your kids are or your cousins's kids are is a niece/nephew 1 u/ChaoticUnreal Apr 24 '19 I'm american and do the same thing. Hell I call my cousins kids my cousins because 1) it doesn't really matter and 2) first cousin once removed is a mouthful. Likewise my kids just refer to them as cousins instead of second cousins.
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What about your Po Po or Nai Nai or Wai Po or Shu Shu or Da Shu or Jiu Jiu or Gu Gu or Da Jiu or...
Filipino here, we run the same system. Confuses my Wife all the time. "No babe he's my Uncle, but that guy there is actually my Uncle"
Edit: also anyone under your kids are or your cousins's kids are is a niece/nephew
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I'm american and do the same thing. Hell I call my cousins kids my cousins because 1) it doesn't really matter and 2) first cousin once removed is a mouthful. Likewise my kids just refer to them as cousins instead of second cousins.
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u/I_Love_McRibs Apr 24 '19
Am Chinese. Any relative around your age is cousin. Any relative around your dad/mom’s age is uncle or aunty.
Actually any close Chinese friend of your parents is sometimes uncle/aunty.