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Originally Posted by Chapel  Martial arts in general were developed to give someone an advantage in a fight. Now, if everyone's fighting abilities were naturally the same, then there wouldn't be much of a need for extensive martial arts. So, martial arts main goal was and is to allow you to defeat opponents who would have normally beat you. Speaking in the utmost of generalities, it wouldn't matter if your opponent was bigger than you or had a weapon.
Karate is Japanese/Okinawan (depending on the particular style), just as I am American. It really doesn't matter that my ancestors came from Europe (and their ancestors came from the Middle East and their ancestors came from Africa and their ancestors came from Pangaea and their ancestors came from the ocean) I am an American. |
Yeah but you weren't born in Europe, Karate was essentially in my knowledge, 'born' in the Okinawan Islands. But if you were moved into America after being born in Europe, like Karate was 'moved' to Japan, would you consider yourself European or American?
Did that make sense? :P
And does the influences of a martial art really affect where it was made, I'm not sure if this is a good comparison, but BJJ was derived from Judo, a Japanese martial art, but nobody hints in the system being Japanese.