Better die on your feet than live on your knees VS the contrary

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In some cultures, in addition to kneeling / prostration before divinities and monarchs,
children and grandchildren were supposed to kneel / prostrate before their parents and grandparents,
pupils and apprentices before their tutors and masters,
slaves and servants before their masters and mistresses;

also rigorous were hierarchical kneeling / prostration in bureaucracy and military, e.g.,
functionaries were supposed to kneel / prostrate before their municipal heads,
municipal heads before their provincial heads,
provincial heads before inspectors general, and so on.

How to end such practices in such cultures if one believes that it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees?

How to promote such practices in different cultures if one believes that it's better to live on your knees than to die on your feet?
 
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