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I need to find the Youtube clip where that little kid from Red Sonja comes and karates their asses back to their mommas!
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Faults could be sloughed off into one of the karates that existed only in the past tense: it was too late to deny connection to China, but amputation and cauterization was still possible.
井の中の蛙 » Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments » Print 2005
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The lack of further details, they say, results from karates covert, outlaw status.
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Faults could be sloughed off into one of the karates that existed only in the past tense: it was too late to deny connection to China, but amputation and cauterization was still possible.
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Faults could be sloughed off into one of the karates that existed only in the past tense: it was too late to deny connection to China, but amputation and cauterization was still possible.
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Faults could be sloughed off into one of the karates that existed only in the past tense: it was too late to deny connection to China, but amputation and cauterization was still possible.
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The lack of further details, they say, results from karates covert, outlaw status.
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The lack of further details, they say, results from karates covert, outlaw status.
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The lack of further details, they say, results from karates covert, outlaw status.
井の中の蛙 » Karate and Modernity: A Call for Comments » Print 2005
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Conversely, the three karates could be united by continuities consisting of whatever pleased their creators: they could depict their predecessors as always secretly engaged in a Japanese identity by casting the troublesome name of karate as a subtle subterfuge with a second, secret, and entirely Japanese meaning; they could lay the blame for many of karate’s shortcomings on Japan itself: “Satsuma forced us to act un-Japanese.”
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