How can you refuse to bow to someone as a threat? It sure shows a lack of (inordinate) respect, but that's not a *threat*.
Why is Canada bowing to indigenous people anyway? Do they see them as somehow superior?
Why is Canada bowing to indigenous people anyway? Do they see them as somehow superior?
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I understand a moment of silence for what (probably) happened to them. But bowing doesn't seem right.
Maybe I'm just too autistic to get it or I'm being pedantic but I've always thought of bowing (outside of Japan) as a thing to show a special level of subservience to someone.
Ah. You bow on other days as well. My bad. Here, when we want to remember a group of people who suffered (be they pure victims or soldiers) we just stand in silence for a while. At least, when we did that at school I don't remember anyone bowing.
You just don't like any kind of respect for other people or social obligation whatsoever. You only care about yourself.
All of that is true. But we have moments of silence (and apparently in canada, bow) for many tragedies. Why not this one?
It doesn't have to imply feeling guilty for something your ancestors did and it doesn't have to be coercive.
It doesn't have to imply feeling guilty for something your ancestors did and it doesn't have to be coercive.