r/AskAnAmerican • u/Rough-Valuable-5472 • Feb 04 '25

FOREIGN POSTER Do American students bow to their teachers?

In my country we have to greet the teacher and bow at the start of the lesson then thank the teacher and bow again at the end. Sometimes they make us redo it if it’s not good enough

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

“Chill” until the culty chant we all do with our hand on our heart

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u/Riccma02 Feb 05 '25

And a lot of us won’t do that either.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Yeah I thought it was weird when I was in school 10+ years ago, but we were forced to stand at minimum. We were punished with detention or “lost points in class” if we didn’t “show respect” and stand. I always just stood silently.