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During a job interview at a multinational company in Santiago, Chile, the interviewer (a 40-year-old human resources director) asks the 24-year-old candidate several questions using usted. The candidate, who is Chilean, responds consistently with usted for the first twenty minutes. Near the end of the interview, the interviewer says: "Mira, en esta empresa somos muy cercanos — puedes tutearme si quieres." The candidate continues using usted for the remainder of the interview.
How should the candidate's continued use of usted after the interviewer's explicit invitation to tutear be interpreted pragmatically, and what are its likely social consequences in this specific Chilean professional context?
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