The world is going through
is going through a confused period of change, where on the one hand
on the one hand, the most exacerbated
and nationalist aspirations on the one hand, and
on the other, political and economic forces
who want to erase natural or ethnic borders,
to establish “globalized” systems,“Europeanized” systems, etc.
At the same time, quarrels from another age are still
even in the most technologically and scientifically “advanced” countries
technologically and scientifically “advanced” countries
cultural specificity or religious hegemony
religious hegemony, opening the door to all forms
potential forms of extremism.
In this sense, the Dojo
becomes a veritable refuge, a sanctuary in a world
apart, insofar as it ignores differences,
be they social, ethnic, ideological or religious.
religious. The uniformly white “karategi”,
symbolizing the purity and uniformity of the spirit
and uniformity of spirit, allows us to forget what might differentiate us
and consider only what brings us together,
which is our shared desire to practice
our authentic Martial Art.
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