The higher the hand are raised, the greater is the respect and courtesy conveyed. The person who is inferior in age or rank in the social scale of precedence initiates such a movement of the hands and the person receiving the salutation immediately recipocrates. The thai salutation may be rendered while sitting, standing, walking or even lying in bed during illness. In rendering a salutation while standing to a most respected person who is sitting, one , as a decorum of good manners, will stoop or bend the head at the same time. when taking leave, the departing person will offer a salute in the same manner, followed in turn by a corresponding salute of the other person. Such a slutation is called a wai in thai, and is often seen in thai society.