There is always this disconnect... honestly you should use the search function and see how many times this has been asked and how you get the same responses.
I don't see what race has to do with it at all to begin with, the second biggest market in MMA is in Japan, in fact you could say it is bigger since they sell out entire stadiums over there with mostly Japanese fighters fighting. So you might want to look into that.
Guys like Sakuraba, Gomi, Yoshida, Genki Sudo, Mach Sakurai, Kid Yamamoto, Okami, etc. etc. are legends in the sport.
Keep in mind Dana White is the president of the UFC but he is a promoter, he wasn't remotely involved in the creation of the UFC.
Cross training styles have been around for centuries, many of the arts you see now a days are the result of a single practitioner who crosstrained in other styles and schools and developed his own style.
That is the reason we have a hundred different Ryus of Karate, Jujitsu. It is the reason there are countless forms and styles of Kung Fu. All this was long before Bruce Lee.
What Bruce Lee recognized was that MANY Martial Artists lost their way. They stopped sparring, they stopped actually fighting, they relied on forms as the sole method of their teaching and practicing their art, they never tested themselves and they remained rigid in form and function. They tied themselves to a style, to a form.
In China there were Lei Tei matches constantly over which school of Kung Fu was the best. There were regional and city champions that lived like celebrities from fighting. They honed their styles, entire styles of Kung Fu were made just in response to another school. Entire styles made to counter another style.
In Japan there were constant Dojo yoburis, countless ways and means of testing each other. Challenge matches were the norm, and the students challenging anyone who dared challenge their master. There were constant competetions.
Yet somehow, someway all that was lost.
Now a days people talk about how "hardcore" Martial Artist are. When in fact the people they talk about have never used their skills in unnarmed combat. They learn "deadly" techniques from a sensei who has never done them, and that sensei learned from another guy who had also never done them, and so forth.
Hardcore is not forms without sparring.
Hardcore is not pantomiming eye gouges, nut kicks, or thinking a kick to the inside of the knee will take someone out.
Hardcore is not a cooperative training partner who throws a half speed choreographed punch while you go through a complex series of countermovements in which he just stands still.
Tell me how in the hell is that hardcore, and how in the hell does that prepare you for self defense?
Tell me what single facet of those "hardcore" Martial Arts do the Modern Militaries of the World use? How do they simulate combat?
When I was in the Army, within the first two weeks I was crawling underneath constatina wire, with explosions a few feet away and real bullets soaring 3 to 4ft over my head, in the dead of night. That is how they prepare soldiers by making it as close to combat as possible.
They don't spend 3 hours talking about philosophy, or telling you how to be aware, they force you to be aware by putting you in situations in which lack of awareness or attention to detail can cause you your life, or at the very least to get badly hurt.
What I also find hilarious is how few techniques are illegal in MMA, but are solely thought to be what makes a Traditionalist from a Sportist.
The funny part is that your "Real Martial Artist" haven't eye gouged or kick people in the nuts on a regular basis, whereas a "Sportist" has most assuredly eye gouged and nut kicked more people on accident then someone who "trains for the streets" has done in their whole life.
Nevermind the fact that your entire argument lacks any factual knowledge or understanding of Martial Arts, much less MMA. Otherwise you would see how MMA is traditional "Asian" Martial Arts in action. You would also see how many MMA fighters are actually "REAL" Martial Artist who cross train, but have a background in traditional Martial Arts.
I have trained in both, I can tell you that I have broken more opponent's bones, eye gouged more people, nut kicked more people, and rendered more people unconscious in training and competing in "sport based Martial Arts" than I have with any technique learned in Traditional Arts other than Judo, and I worked as a bouncer for quite some time.
It wasn't Karate, Kung Fu, Ninjitsu or Tae Kwon Do that I used to deal with people in the bar. It was Judo and MMA techniques that I did autonomously because I had trained in adrenaline based situations constantly.
Anyway... just some knowledge from a REAL practitioner. I hold two black belts, one in a "Traditional" art, Goju-Ryu Karate, and one in a "Sport" based art Judo. I have studied much more, that is my insight.