[narses]

Yawn. I pointed out a FACT refuting a claim that makes conservatives look foolish. You became insulting. Such internet elitism bores me. Yawn.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

You said “Nixon bowed”. Well, no one said he didn't. In fact, it was widely talked about how it was such a scandal when he did that back in 1973 (I believe).

But it has been used by liberals to say “Well, no one complained when Nixon did it.”

That's a lie. They did complain.

And what is even worse about saying “Nixon bowed” is that the degree of the bow, the response you get when you bow, and the circumstances of the bow are all taken into account in Japan.

Nixon's bow was “polite” and the Japanese people took it that way. Obama’s bow was “subservient” and it has horribly embarrassed the Japanese people.

If you think that was insulting, then you need to stop yawning and get a thicker skin. And if you think the Nixon bow and the Obama bow are comparable, you have no chance of understanding Japanese culture.