I read that there are three types of bows in Japanese traditions. A slight bow is to greet someone of inferior rank. A middle bow is to greet someone of equal rank, and a deep bow is to someone of superior rank. Japanese rankings are traditionally determined by birth. In that photo, our President is doing a deep bow, as if the Japanese Emperor is of superior rank.
In the days of the Roman Republic, the lowest born Plebian Roman citizen considered himself of superior rank to all non citizens, even the most royal of foreign sovereigns. Americans have tended to think the same way, and we do not have rankings determined by birth. The only tradition we have that is remotely similar to bowing to a superior is saluting a superior officer in the armed forces, and those ranking are determined, at least in part, by merit.
No American citizen should be bowing to a foreigner of any rank, and to nobody but G-d. Our President has been expressing an inferiority complex by bowing to foreign sovereigns. Foreign sovereigns should all be bowing to any American citizen they greet, especially because many of them owe their position to American military might, just as many ancient sovereigns owed their positions to Roman military might.
‘No American citizen should be bowing to a foreigner of any rank, and to nobody but G-d. Our President has been expressing an inferiority complex by bowing to foreign sovereigns. Foreign sovereigns should all be bowing to any American citizen they greet, especially because many of them owe their position to American military might, just as many ancient sovereigns owed their positions to Roman military might.’
Sorry, but thats just nonsense. Americans shouldnt bow but we should all bow to you?. Rather contradictory, no?.
So the Queen should bow to Elmer J Fuddensack Jr, Springfield, Mid-Westernia, USA?.