Agreed, Americans are probably some of the most cultrually sensitive people on the planet.Obama is just being your typical uncultured American. A bow is never supposed to be done together with physical contact, as Obama does in the picture of the OP. It's a laff.*
Although I suppose the criticism is that Obama is grovelling to a foreign leader again. I might in fact share this criticism, but I can't make up my mind where cultural sensitivity ends and grovelling begins. There is something refreshing about typcial American culturally sensitivity, which contrary to public perception is something the Americans excell in.
* Incidentally, while I'm at it, in the modern age, one does not kiss a woman's hand. You're not a dog, and she doesn't need your saliva all over her hands. Your lips move close to her hand, then blow a little.
And dont tell me how to introduce myself to your sister.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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