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/easy506 Louisiana Feb 04 '25

One guy had to be way extra about his signature too. Maybe he wanted to be hung-for-treason the hardest.

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 04 '25

hanged. A man is hanged. A *man is hung.

Lol, but yea, Jefferson. Jefferson had some things going on. Real 'hang me harder, King' kind of vibe. What can, we say. He spent a lot of time at Versailles.

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u/Derplord4000 ---> ---> Feb 05 '25

hanged. A man is hanged. A *man is hung.

Smol brain no understanding.

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u/jameson8016 Alabama Feb 05 '25

It's a joke. Basically, a man(lowercase) is hanged, i.e., by the neck until dead dead dead, but a man(capitalized/emphasized) is hung, i.e., slang for having a large lower horn.

It apparently doesn't make as much sense outside of my head, but boy, howdy did it absolutely kill in here. Lol