Just like seeing my name in bold

I've got a question for youse traditionalists (not technique related):

1. Do you/your school use the dress of whichever culture birthed your art?

2. Do you/your school use the 'jargon' of said culture when identifying actions, techniques, et al?


I answer yes to both of these. No, another question, if yes . . .
why?

Not to offend anyone (particularly those with whom I study) but I am in America. I don't pronounce the Japanese terminology so much as I butcher it and defile its grave. I don't look all that sexy, or feel all the loose, in the traditional karate gi. So, one day, I wondered to myself, "why are we borrowing the culture when what we study is the martial art?"

Lord knows I couldn't tell an Okinawan or Japanese student the technique I was going to do. Better to just show 'em.

Just sleepy after full-store inventory. Talk amongst yourselves.

Peace.