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Old 02-04-2005, 07:56 PM   #25
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Re: Bowing...

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Miha Sinkovec wrote:
I can certainly relate to that.

And as the Chinese say: "If you bow at all, bow lowly."
Hi Miha,

I am Chinese, and I don't bow (in normal everyday activities anyway) and I have not heard of the above saying, maybe it is Japanese. The Chinese civilisation did bow/kowtow but then such practice became arcane since circa 1920; eversince China underwent a huge change in management (i.e. overthrowing of the Imperial Ching dynasty and founding of the Republic of China).

Just a piece of cultural policing.

Boon.

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