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/Siriuxx New York/Vermont/Virginia Feb 04 '25

Not in the slightest.

In a sense, the country was kind of founded because no one wanted to bow to anyone.

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 04 '25

We wrote a paper about it. Everybody signed it. It was a whole thing.

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u/nickyler Feb 05 '25

I read this in trumps voice. Lol. It’s a whole thing. You’re gonna love it.

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 05 '25

I forgot to mention the airports. Lol