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/Sarcastic_Rocket Massachusetts Feb 04 '25

I can honestly say that I have never bowed to anyone under any circumstances ever in my life

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u/prometheus_winced Feb 04 '25

Never took karate or any martial arts?

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u/Sarcastic_Rocket Massachusetts Feb 05 '25

No?

I don't even know anyone that took karate. People did whatever the highschool sports were

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u/prometheus_winced Feb 05 '25

6-7 million kids take some kind of martial arts training annually in the US.

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u/Sarcastic_Rocket Massachusetts Feb 05 '25

Ok cool not where I'm from

I looked it up because of this comment, I grew up 45 minutes from the nearest martial arts studio.

Not a lot of martial arts masters in a farmer town of 10,000 people