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  • Thumbnail for Kowtow
    A kowtow /ˈkaʊtaʊ/ is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In...
    16 KB (1,976 words) - 22:40, 30 March 2024
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    is translated to "kowtow diplomacy" or "kowtow foreign policy". In general, dogeza is translated into English as "prostration" or "kowtow". In the Japanese...
    4 KB (437 words) - 21:46, 8 March 2024
  • Dogeza: I Tried Asking While Kowtowing (Japanese: 土下座で頼んでみた, Hepburn: Dogeza de Tanondemita, "I Tried Asking While Kowtowing") is a Japanese sex comedy...
    39 KB (2,366 words) - 16:56, 25 November 2023
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    as well. In ancient Chinese society, kowtow, or kneeling-bowing, was common for students to express gratitude to their teachers. Before learning any skills...
    34 KB (3,932 words) - 09:35, 15 May 2024
  • nicknamed the "Kowtow Monk", whom the Emperor respected highly and summoned him often to chat with him. One day, the Kowtow Monk paid a visit to the palace...
    8 KB (1,112 words) - 16:05, 6 April 2023
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    monarch, or another central figure. Hence, the word court may also be applied to the coterie of a senior member of the nobility. Royal courts may have their...
    30 KB (3,595 words) - 22:09, 15 February 2024
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    (he saw the Kowtow as too excessive). Throughout his meetings with Chinese officials, Macartney was repeatedly urged to perform the kowtow during his audience...
    49 KB (6,457 words) - 03:16, 29 April 2024
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    meaningless Hallmark Holiday, as well as placing unfair pressure on employees to kowtow to managers who earn more than they do while exercising power over them...
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    prostrations are similarly used to show respect to rulers, civil authorities and social elders or superiors, as in the Chinese kowtow or Ancient Greek proskynesis...
    23 KB (2,594 words) - 16:57, 18 January 2024
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    although the Dalai Lama was not required to kowtow to the emperor, who rose from his throne and advanced 30 feet to meet him, the significance of the visit...
    151 KB (19,160 words) - 01:13, 2 May 2024
  • diplomacy and ritual. The other states had to send a tributary envoy to China on schedule, who would kowtow to the Chinese emperor as a form of tribute...
    27 KB (3,206 words) - 07:38, 6 May 2024
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    pandemic by government officials in Taiwan as an alternative to handshake. Bowing Handshake Kowtow Proskynesis 国家人文历史 (2020-05-06). "如果见面不能握手,你会选哪种古代礼仪代替?"...
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    29, 2018. Varney, James (March 26, 2018). "Jordan Peterson's refusal to kowtow to modern liberal pieties makes him a star — and a marked man". The Washington...
    75 KB (6,265 words) - 07:43, 24 April 2024
  • while in the West, the whole face tends to be used. Western style emoticons are mostly written from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise...
    47 KB (1,605 words) - 12:49, 13 May 2024
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    one was expected to kowtow before the emperor. In a conversation with the emperor, it was considered a crime to compare oneself to the emperor in any...
    37 KB (4,172 words) - 13:31, 10 May 2024
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    his meeting the Jiaqing Emperor in 1816, Amherst refused to perform the traditional kowtow, an act that the Qing saw as a severe breach of etiquette...
    179 KB (22,996 words) - 21:25, 12 May 2024
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    Clarence Thomas (category Opposition to affirmative action)
    in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to the old order, this...
    208 KB (21,051 words) - 01:04, 15 May 2024
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    from Jewish low bowing Proskynesis Dogeza, prostration in Japanese culture Kowtow, prostration in Chinese culture "Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No. 812". Sunnah...
    8 KB (853 words) - 09:12, 14 April 2024
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    turns to kowtow three to nine times (depending on the family's adherence to traditional values) before the tomb of the ancestors. The Kowtowing ritual...
    28 KB (2,559 words) - 01:33, 14 April 2024
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    manipulated American foreign policy and were eager to kowtow to the Soviet Union, although such attitudes had begun to change among the younger generation who had...
    77 KB (6,373 words) - 23:08, 13 May 2024
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