Re: [*FSFFU*] Starship Troopers

From: Geoffrey D. Sperl (gamgee@GEOCITIES.COM)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 10:19:05 PST


Tonya Browning wrote:

> I'm sick of extrapolated films that still believe the world will be white
> three hundred years from now (which isn't true of our present world).
> Sorry if this sounds like a rant, I'm just tired of these kind of
> "oversights."

As a white man who lives in Detroit (and has for 20 years), and is
attempting to figure out how the world will react to a (potential, as of
now) child of European and Filipino stock, I agree completely.

Verhoven probably thought he'd throw two or three minorities in there
for flavor...I can't remember: does Heinlein actually go into the ethnic
make-up of his characters?

- Geoffrey



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