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Why not get into dub music directly?
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Dubstep isn't a way into dub but an extension out of it. I've yet to meet a dubstep fan who isn't more than familiar with the names you put on that list earlier.
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Further, why adopt many of the cultural/linguistic/style elements of one culture and exploit it for your own subculture's gain?
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Those very culture/linguistic/style elements you mention have been absorbed within British inner cities for decades. There's a massive carribean influence in cities like London, Birmingham, Bristol. Dubstep is more an expression of that than any kind of exotic borrowing. You're in danger of imposing the kind of racial segregation that may take place in LA on to what goes on here.
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If dubstep scene can use dub terms/phrases/concepts/images why not just go all out and go dub?
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Because Sonic Youth shout 'Shake', does that mean they should sound like Bill Haley?
EDIT: Poo, I appear to have pretty much duplicated Glice's post.