I am not surprised. In the last few hundred years one of the more important social etiket was to use the correct title and social gesture. People could get lync

I am not surprised. In the last few hundred years one of the more important social etiket was to use the correct title and social gesture. People could get lynched/beaten if incorrect behavior was given to an important enough person or group. Unproportional and often extrajudicial in their application of violence, but far from unprecedented. From a historical perspective all that has change is which group is important enough and what titles are deemed socially required.