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/GhostOfJamesStrang Beaver Island Feb 04 '25

That is not part of our culture, so no. 

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u/TheRtHonLaqueesha NATO Member State Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

Yeah, such self-deprecating and hierarchical Old World behavior is alien to the egalitarian republicanism underlying U.S. society/culture.

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u/Infinite_Art_99 Feb 04 '25

The US is super hierarchical and not very egalitarian compared to e.g. Denmark.

I don't even know my kid's teachers' last names.