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Dignity on the knees

2026-04-19 19:24:00, Opinione Luan Rama

Dignity on the knees

In diplomacy, a gesture is never neutral. It is always a message.

A gesture may seem like courtesy. But when it's repeated, it's no longer an episode.

Become a model.

Especially in diplomacy, where clothing, every inch of distance, bowing, every body position, and even the way one stands or shakes hands, have symbolic weight, repetition no longer remains at the level of personal ethics.

It becomes a political message.

In this context, kneeling is not simply a physical gesture.

It conveys a clear symbolic message: placing oneself in a position of inferiority vis-à-vis the other, an expression that in the language of body politics is read as overcoming protocol distance and shifting the usual balance of formal equality between states, which in fact the protocols of every state respect with great fanaticism.

It's not just what is intended that matters. It's what is read that matters.

When the same behavior is repeated, reading is no longer a random interpretation. It becomes perception.
And perception, in diplomacy, is political reality.

In the end, it is no longer the single gesture that is judged, but the pattern it creates.

The pattern, when repeated, no longer requires explanation. It requires meaning. Meaning in diplomacy is always stronger than intent.

If, paradoxically, kneeling has become a line of conduct, even formally as a polite gesture, it continues to produce the opposite effect to what is intended.

In relations between partner states, where formal equality and protocol solemnity are a non-negotiable code, we no longer deal with details.

We are dealing with a problem of representation.





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