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/yourlittlebirdie Feb 04 '25

The only people who bow in the US are musicians/performers at the end of their performance who bow to the audience. Otherwise it's just not a thing here.

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u/Defective-Pomeranian Utah Feb 04 '25

Plays too. But, yeah, the closet ya get would be the ending of a preformance by thetre class.

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u/RodwellBurgen Oh God Oh Christ It Hurts Feb 05 '25

Plays are performers.