Considering the fact Yakuza & Triads are the oldest active criminal associations , you would think their brand name be uses more but This Is America.
Exactly.
This Is
not China or Japan.
It wouldn’t make any sense to use these brand names for any other criminal societies or broadly as “mafiaâ€. And we’ve all agreed that even using the term “mafia†broadly is in fact wrong.
The Triads have been called like that in America, unlike other ethnic mobs, it’s rare to read “Chinese Mafiaâ€, same for the Yakuza.
Keep in mind that globalization (both criminal and non-criminal) it’s fairly recent. Triads came later than the Tongs.
And even though the Tongs have been active on American soil as early as the Mafia, it’s undeniable that impact and damage the Mafia had (and still has) in America (and throughout the Western world) is by far superior than whatever was and is caused these two subcultures.
They both operate mostly within their own communities and never managed (or wanted to) infiltrate the upper world like the LCN did. Unions, entertainment, service industry, construction and finance, ... Maybe locally in places with a high concentration of their own people (Hawaii, San Francisco)...
So it makes perfect sense that their “brand†names are more specific and not used as a broad generalization.
