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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 206327" data-attributes="member: 9521">You know, this requirement for conspicuous achievement is a very Western notion. When I was in college I studied Judo and then continued afterword and the interesting thing about Judo is that it uses only 3 belt assignment - white, brown and black. In the art of Judo your belt contains all your experience and thus you never wash it and you always use the same belt. As a result, the longer you study Judo the darker will become your belt. After about a year I noticed my belt was a light shade of brown and by the 3rd year it was a rich dark brown. I suspect all Eastern martial arts were once the same.However, here in the West do we have green, purple, orange, mauve, etc., colors allowing everyone to see quickly see what &quot;caste&quot; each person was in.&nbsp; In the East such things did not exists before Westernization. It's differences like this that make sociology such an interesting subject.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 206327, member: 9521"] You know, this requirement for conspicuous achievement is a very Western notion. When I was in college I studied Judo and then continued afterword and the interesting thing about Judo is that it uses only 3 belt assignment - white, brown and black. In the art of Judo your belt contains all your experience and thus you never wash it and you always use the same belt. As a result, the longer you study Judo the darker will become your belt. After about a year I noticed my belt was a light shade of brown and by the 3rd year it was a rich dark brown. I suspect all Eastern martial arts were once the same. However, here in the West do we have green, purple, orange, mauve, etc., colors allowing everyone to see quickly see what "caste" each person was in. In the East such things did not exists before Westernization. It's differences like this that make sociology such an interesting subject. [/QUOTE]

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