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Abstract
“MAMA” is a term of maternal Uncle. It means an authentic relationship between ego and maternal Uncle. People are now using ‘MAMA’ to accost of almost everyone such as a rickshaw puller, a hawker, a shopkeeper, a friend, a security guard and so on without considering any age, religion, profession, relation, even a stranger. In a response the accosted individual is also practice ‘MAMA’. Most of the urban citizens are using it extremely. By addressing it, People are questioned kinship system of Bangladesh. Sometimes Addressed people are lost their identity among family members. Socially created suffix can be different based on heterosexually and groups thought of a society by which the characteristics of social institutions and variety of kin accost can be known. This paper attempts to show how our Conventional “MAMA” is threatening by this anointment ‘MAMA’ practicing culture and the reason behind its extreme use without considering any kinship relation. This research has conducted with different technique as observation; interview, case study, in-depth interview and also dig into important newspaper and online news to understand the views and relations of ‘MAMA’ practicing culture. The work tries to reveal the contemporary using mechanism of socially created anointment of ‘MAMA’ suffix, difference between the conventional kin relationship of “MAMA” and the anointment of ‘MAMA’ accosts, variety of ‘MAMA’ accost based on socio-economic condition and how they break the identity of a person.