The word "usted" is a product of colonial slave mentality and we shouldn't forget it! (My Spanish teacher actually did teach us this)https://twitter.com/desusnice/status/1377482764711309312 …
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But for various cultural reasons the "polite" thing to do was to address someone you didn't know well in the plural rather than the singular "Thou" became "rude" when talking to someone you didn't know well, until in English "you" just became universal
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As like an extension of the "royal we" Well they had that in Spanish too but it went a different direction
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