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It's not about ability, it's about people they can absolutely trust, absolutely. "Old school Japanese" don't really do that with any gaijin... like, at all. And we know The Foot is an ancient Japanese clan because we've literally seen its formation in Feudal Japan. You don't see any random dudes in the Yakuza.
It's when we get into stuff like (versions of) the Foot having, like, open recruitment for random white dudes off the streets of New York, or things like having Karai or Saki openly employing characters like Bebop and Rocksteady in their ranks that I lose any ability to take it seriously.
I mean, think about it. If you're Oroku Saki, who are you going to trust? Are you going to trust Jason Anderson, who you trained for a couple weeks and is now one of your Foot Soldiers, isn't going to rat out your whole criminal organization the first time he gets caught by the police (or worse, go in with a wire and bust you directly)? Are you going to trust Kenshin Hayabusa, whose grandfather in Japan vouches for him, whose whole family you know and trust from the old country, is probably going to slit his own wrists before doing that?
It'd be the latter. It would always be the latter. It would never be the former.
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