Question

What is the difference between patronizing your favorite store and patronizing your little brother?

Answer 1

well, there's actually several different meanings of patronizing, but the two major ones are to "treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority," and another meaning is "frequent as a customer.", which is like at a grocery market, clothing+accessories store, makeup shop, sports equipment store, restaurant, fast food, etc.

so if you patronize your favorite store, that would mean you're a customer and you go there a lot, but if you patronize your little brother, that means you treat him in a kind way but you talk to him as if you're superior to him.

~hope i helped ouo have a nice rest of ur day~

lots of love,

lee

Answer 2

Patronizing a store means helping it buy going there often, and basically buying things often and consequently giving it money..

Patronizing a little brother means behaving condescendingly towards, a kind of master-slave relationship... One should never do that...