Do you have any tradition of this type in your - C O U N T R Y

oh ,really?if we respect somebody.we would bend and say hello now.in ancient time people would kowtow to their teacher or respected person.

lol, no we don't have something like that, but we usually only greet people who meet us on street :D

One of my Indian friends once told me about this tradition. We don't have a similar tradition in my country, but we are able to show respect in other ways. We have two different ways to say "you" when we speak to a person. In the old days people used the informal version when they spoke their family or a close friend, and the formal version when they spoke to a person they didn't know that well. The two different versions of "you" still exist in our language, but now young people always use the informal form when they speak to eachother. When we speak to an elderly person that we aren't close to we sometimes use the formal version as a form of respect.

I had never heard about that custom. When I grew up girls used to drop curtsies and boys bowed when we met someone older, but that is not done anymore.

I saw in the film that juniors kissed seniors' boots to show respect, did you mean something like that? In ancient China, student should kneel down when they meet their teacher first time. So we have the word BaiShi(pronunciation), the literal meaning is to kneel down to the teacher, and the amplified meaning is to confirm the relation of teacher and student. But we don't retain this traditional etiquette now. Except some special condition or industry, we don't need to kneel down to our teacher.