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Yeah I think a lot of the exaggeration started before WW2 when the Japanese were trying to instill national pride in their people. At least in the case of samurai.

That being said, maybe the people that hold Euro arts to the same level as Asian arts are not being ethnocentric and may be pretty close to the truth.

One thing is for certain though. With any martial art your getting a lot more out of it than learning to fight. And there is some good in every art.