I Discipline My Daughter

I'm in my early twenties and where I came from kids were raised to respect older people as authorities, especially teachers. The result of it was that I felt I could never trust any of my teachers because there was a huge wall between us. I still feel a barrier between older people and me. Even if I'm asked by an older person to stop talking to them in a formal way and call them by their first name I can't do that because the habit is stronger. This sucks if you need to work together on some project because that causes problems in communication.

Every time I talk in a formal way I feel as if I was saying "don't come closer, you're a stranger to me". That can't create much of a friendly environment, right?