Hmm. This one is a stretch. Here's Obama greeting Nancy Pelosi, at the 2010 State of the Union. He nods his head — another pattern, Obama likes to nod — in greeting. That became a bow, somehow.

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But it’s very nice to meet you.’ Here in the United States, we don’t typically bow, but what we can do is just nod our head to greet somebody.” ...

This is the case with namaste – it has shifted from meaning “I bow to you” to “I bow to the divine in you.” The Indian greeting of ‘namaste.’ ...

I’m not sure how Mike Kerrigan (“Let’s Shake on It,” op-ed, June 13) could have forgotten the most obvious greeting of all: the bow. Bowing has been the customary greeting in Asian ...

President George W Bush's greeting to Tony Blair at the G8 Summit in St Petersburg in 2006 revealed the informality between the two leaders and who was in chargeCredit: REUTERS ...

It is widely believed that bowing became the accepted greeting as far back as the Asuka period, between 593 AD and 710 AD Buddhism was arriving in Japan from mainland Asia and there were shifts in ...

The right-wing media are attempting to revive "bow-gate" by highlighting a picture that shows President Obama bending at the waist while greeting Mayor Pam Iorio of Tampa, Florida, during Obama's ...

In Article Audio PlayerAnthropologists agree it will be difficult to settle on a universal greeting that’s as neutral as the handshake. More likely, we’ll see a range of salutations, some adapted from ...

Conservative media have previously obsessed over Obama's supposed “bowing,” attacking him for his greetings of Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio, Saudi King Abdullah, and Japanese Emperor Akihito.