Interesting,. My daughter calls my wife okaasan and me dad. Maybe it's an American thing?
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Could be. I've heard many mixed kids called the American parent using the US term, usually either "dad" or "mom/mother". I don't know why I didn't use "dad" when I talked to my kids. Someone at the birthing center probably used "papa" and I just kept using it when talking to my kids, and they took it from there. My oldest has almost perfect English and certainly knows the other English terms, but he just continues calling me "papa".