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tesl8n · 3 months ago

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You know what was really cringe today? Before the tournament, they had a prayer that was like, "thank you god for inventing Taekwondo"

And obv besides the insensitivity of having a fucking christian prayer in a group that is not homogenously christian, it's also super dumb because the fucking people who invented Taekwondo weren't fucking christians* >.<

#*with some brief investigation of wikipedia articles it looks like maybe some of them could have been christian #a significant faction fled north korea to south in the aftermath of WWII and that kinda lines up with the traditionalist story of where TKD #came from (as a reclamation of traditional arts by koreans drafted into the japanese army mixed with japanese martial arts)#but most south koreans in that era followed Sindo #so the breakdown is kind of hard. none of the original grandmasters have specific religious leanings listed on wikipedia #in any case. probably a significant amt of non-christians worked on inventing TKD #which makes the dumbass 'give all glory to god' thing even more stupid #i hate how conservative TKD (and martial arts in general) is #buncha military ppl running things and it really affects the politics #Teslynn personal

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