Originally Posted by
jest
I've got no yakuza, but a number of HK Triad stories...
Yeah, go on then.
In the final analysis, the yakuza are a bunch of crims. Plain and simple. But generally speaking, they don't appear to be too much bother if left alone. That sounds a bit naive but you know what I mean...
I don't know why but the triads strike me as being very different - utterly coldhearted and extremely ruthless, like they'd think about chopping someone up with a butcher's knife the same way we'd think about walking the dog...
Also, I get the impression that the socio-economic make-up of triad members is different to the yakuza. Again, it just seems that half of their shooters, I mean the young killers who do the real dirty work, are just that - street kids at heart who've been given a gun. Again, life just seems to be REAL cheap for them...
Omar Rashid
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