EDITOS
Editorials 6
The Dojo: a true refuge in a world apart

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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