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    1. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and

      It is generally accurate but that’s because they’re different products meeting different needs basically

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    2.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and

      So what is the difference in this sense then? What are the needs met by like, Wing Chun kung fu. And for myself I was always more interested in the phenomenon of various "fake" arts with fake lineages, stuff that was more marketing than anything else.

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and

      Chinese martial arts are a blind spot in my obsessive nerd hype fixation but a lot of them are about cultural preservation and Chinese nationalism. They often practice and train in full contact Sanda alongside it from what I understand

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    4. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and

      It's also worth noting how recent a lot of 'traditional' martial arts are. Tae Kwon Do was similarly a nationalist project in post war korea. Jigoro Kano founds Judo in the late 19th century partly after reading western books on wrestling, where he adapts the fireman's carry

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and

      My understanding is that the lineage of Chinese martial arts has the *least* bullshit in it but there's still a lot of bullshit As in, "Shaolin-style kung fu" is at least a thing that there's historical attestation for earlier than the 19th century

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      There are sources about how the fanciful idea of the "wuxia" is based on a real thing, that there was a tradition of close-quarters combat training developed by people working security for merchant caravans traveling through lawless regions of southern China in the Qing Dynasty

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      But yeah all of that history is drenched in layers of bullshit Historically significant bullshit, sure, but still bullshit The "boxing" the Boxer Rebellion built their ideology around was, I mean, a real thing they learned but it didn't work as advertised

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      I guess what complicates the sneering people have about weeaboos etc is that a lot of the bullshit is homegrown Like, the absurd stereotypes of "samurai" and "ninja" we have were *already there* in Japanese culture before we got wind of it, which doesn't make it any more real

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    9. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

      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

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Cybren @dreamingnoctis and

      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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      And it's kind of condescending that the American filmmakers didn't realize that what they were doing was far-right fascist propaganda because they could only see it through a Western lens, "Those poor oppressed Japanese who've had their ancient cultural traditions diluted"

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        2. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren 24 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

          Don't you feel bad for this class of warrior-nobility who have lost their place in a rapidly modernizing society, though?

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 24 Aug 2020
          Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and

          Yeah, it's kind of like if someone from another country did a sentimental film about the confederacy or something. Like Last Samurai really is a romanticized "lost cause" narrative. God, in a weird moment of anticipatory awfulness it even references effing Sparta FFS.

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