'Sir' I feel is used very often in our country. Go to the security staff of your apartment or office, they will start each sentence by Sir and end it by Sir. Call some agent or broker the salutation they always use is Sir. Got to meet any sales person, again their polite sentences will have lot of sirs in it. And above all of it, the respect they give to you (willingly or unwillingly) is independent of them being older or younger to you.
But till today, even after thinking and pondering a lot on my past achievements, i couldnt recall the 'ONE' great thing i have done to deserve such a respect. Over it the irony is, on one side we are taught to respect our elders and on the other side the 'Sir' culture makes us get the respect from our elders.
Fortunately in my profession, no one calls anyone as 'Sir', but I sometimes despise the thought of the day when I might have to respect a person much younger to me by calling him as 'Sir' (And that will be obviously an UNWILLING respect).
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