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Would you curtsey\bow if you met a member of a royal family

Postby Maldovania » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:34 pm

That is my question



I probably would bow not because i am a supporter of royalty but just because it is what you do.
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Postby Fionnuala_Saoirse » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:38 pm

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Postby God Kefka » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:41 pm

Maldovania wrote:That is my question



I probably would bow not because i am a supporter of royalty but just because it is what you do.


Yes. If I didn't, I'd be worried about my head.

It could get mounted on spikes on the city walls..
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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:41 pm

Well, it depends. If I'm a guest of a royal, it would be discourteous not to bow, if that is the custom. But if they are a guest of mine, then bowing I don't think is required.

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Postby Yumyumsuppertime » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:42 pm

I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.
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Postby -The Unified Earth Governments- » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:42 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:Well, it depends. If I'm a guest of a royal, it would be discourteous not to bow, if that is the custom. But if they are a guest of mine, then bowing I don't think is required.

This, to be polite I would...if I am going to them, but if they visit me for whatever reason the tables turn.
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Postby Maldovania » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:44 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.


I can show you pictures of Americans bowing or curtsey to Queen Elizabeth II
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Postby Norstal » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:46 pm

Maldovania wrote:
Yumyumsuppertime wrote:I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.


I can show you pictures of Americans bowing or curtsey to Queen Elizabeth II

Were they inclining or were they bowing?

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Postby Tyriece » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:47 pm

I see no reason not to if they wanted me to.
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Postby Srboslavija » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:47 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.


I believe your current President has set the standard for bowing to foreign royalty, lol.
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Postby Yumyumsuppertime » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:47 pm

Maldovania wrote:
Yumyumsuppertime wrote:I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.


I can show you pictures of Americans bowing or curtsey to Queen Elizabeth II


Doesn't mean they're missing the point any less. It's not the moral equivalent, but an American could fly a flag of a nation that seeks to overthrow the United States (or sought to do so in the past), and be missing the point just about as much. They have a right to do so. Doesn't make it right to do so.
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Postby Yumyumsuppertime » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:48 pm

Srboslavija wrote:
Yumyumsuppertime wrote:I would respectfully incline my head, but not bow. Part of the point of being American is that you don't do that.


I believe your current President has set the standard for bowing to foreign royalty, lol.


That was an informal greeting, not a formal symbol of obeisance, no matter what the right-wing bullshit artists have tried to say.
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Postby The Picti » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:50 pm

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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:50 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
Srboslavija wrote:
I believe your current President has set the standard for bowing to foreign royalty, lol.


That was an informal greeting, not a formal symbol of obeisance, no matter what the right-wing bullshit artists have tried to say.

Really. I think people need to differentiate between a courteous tipping bow that Obama seems to do to a lot of people and a formal bow.

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Postby Ceannairceach » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:52 pm

The Picti wrote:When hell freezes over!

All men/women are equal.

Alright. And? It is still courteous in some situations to bow, even just a tad. It doesn't make you any less equal to be respectful of someone in a position of authority by following the customs.

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Postby Czechanada » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:57 pm

Well, I do have a bit of noble blood in my veins, being related to Mathius Corvinus and Bethlen Gabor which comes with being the great grandson of an Austrian-Hungarian baron.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:59 pm

I don't think I'd encounter such nobility and as a result would probably not do so unless I was told that such royalty were in the area.
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Postby Nazis in Space » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:02 pm

I'd only curtsey if I was wearing a pretty dress and high heels.

But if I was, I'd likely do it for more people than just royalty. It's a cute gesture~
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Postby The Picti » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:03 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:
The Picti wrote:When hell freezes over!

All men/women are equal.

Alright. And? It is still courteous in some situations to bow, even just a tad. It doesn't make you any less equal to be respectful of someone in a position of authority by following the customs.



Like I said when hell freezes over! I will show respect to someone who has earned it, not simply because they dropped out of a particular birth canal (to put it politely).
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Postby Mkuki » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:11 pm

Hopefully not without being forced to.
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Postby Wolfmanne » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:12 pm

Yes, I don't want to offend Liz II.

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Postby Katyuscha » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:17 pm

Ceannairceach wrote:Well, it depends. If I'm a guest of a royal, it would be discourteous not to bow, if that is the custom. But if they are a guest of mine, then bowing I don't think is required.

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Postby Baiynistan » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:17 pm

I would begrudgingly bow my head to the Queen Elizabeth II (and any visiting leader of a democratic country, royal or no). The rest of the Windsors can stick it up their backsides though.
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Postby Great Kleomentia » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:21 pm

Depends on the individual. I dont have respect for inherited power. But i do have respect for someone who used that power to achieve something.
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