Chinese V Japanese V Euro historical blade culture

[craytab]

Every human I have ever met knows what a katana is and hold some kind of deep reverence and mystique for it.

Pretty much everyone I know could not name a single Chinese blade.

Pretty much everyone I know has a vague awareness of swords that are long that knights used and they are called long swords or something. Most people have also heard of a Bowie but argue over how to pronounce it.

This is a weird situation given European blade culture is the most developed, proven and dominant force in human history. Europeans where in a literal arms race against everyone forever and as a result crafted the most developed and successful skills and weapons.

Japan on the other hand used their blades to cut up live sea animals, had almost no wespons development and used the katana mainly to bully a few defenceless peasants and occasionally self snuff the operator.

China has possibly the longest blade history, development, mythology and not even the Chinese know about it unless it is a Kung Fu demo in the mall on Chinese New year.

Why the katana so highly entrenched in the entire psyche of the world when it is basically a crow bar with an edge that has done little more than harm defenceless people.

Everything said is totally well researched and unbiased facts.... totally.

Is there a question in there somewhere? Or is this the historical lessons part of the forum?

 

[KenHash]

Any weapon eg a rock is more effective against aboriginals or non aboriginal people with no or more limited weapons. That's why weapon's are used, was there supposed to be a point other than people with weapons tend to be more effective than people without weapons.... Captain Obvious??
Clearly over the fullness of history to date weapons + tactics of the Euros won against every other culture except other Euros.
Clearly irrelevant, in a historical blade discussion of bladed weapons in a thread on a blade forum.
Agreed, it is a symbol of oppression of the Japanese people by hired thugs doing the dirty work of a corrupt elite. There is no honour in ganging up on defenceless working people with highly resourced and trained thugs armed to the teeth.

ROTFLMAO!!!

 

[Boru13]