Meaningfulness of Rank

Most all martial arts use belts to signify students' progression through the ranks. If you tell people you are a martial artist, their first question will be "What belt do you have?" Everyone is of aware of the martial art belt system, but how meaningful is a martial art rank?

• To people in your school, it is very meaningful.
• To people in your organization, it is meaningful.
• To people in other schools and organizations within your art, it is somewhat meaningful.
• To people in schools or organizations of other martial arts, it is practically meaningless.
• To the general public, it is only meaningful if they consider it meaningful, otherwise it is meaningless to them.
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