Amusingly, lots of modern MMA people would say this is completely accurate WRT wrestling vs. most "traditional" martial arts.
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Just like actual Western gunslingers like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson were able to read ridiculous exaggerations of their own exploits in dime novels published during their lifetime
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And nonsense mysticism about the ancient tradition of Chinese martial arts is absolutely a chauvinistic Chinese nationalism thing and has been for centuries It *still is*, it's why this guy is being politically persecutedhttps://deadspin.com/he-never-intended-to-become-a-political-dissident-but-1838706430 …
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Yeah Bujinkan ninjitsu is mostly a load of bullshit about pop culture concepts of what ninjas are, from what I understand, but it's also an entirely japanese organization founded in the 70s
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It's like how people in America were somewhat upset about The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise because it's "cultural appropriation" but people in Japan were VERY upset about it because it was far-right fascist propaganda
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