Thread:Evil Tim/@comment-1504072-20180822163107/@comment-1504072-20180822170658

I don't believe that's necessarily the case, since some people don't really show an interest in learning the cultures of their ancestors if they weren't raised in that culture, especially if they were very distant relatives.

It was unclear how close or distant Snake's Japanese ancestors were supposed to be in the games' storyline (beginning in MG2), and while the questionable MGS1 Handbook does claim BB was third-generation Japanese-American, I'd take that with a grain of salt (maybe that was the explanation the book writer came up with independently to try and explain Solid Snake's ancestry).