It’s probably significant that Johnny Rico of STARSHIP TROOPERS is Filipino, which is cool, but aside from minor hints there’s no way to tell until the last chapter makes it explicit.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/956384311967498240 …
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Replying to @KurtBusiek
Heinlein is very interesting because he was trying to be anti-racist (one of his 1950s books has a Zulu heroine) but he could't imagine other cultures.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
A step forward, in the SF world of then, but one more of cleverness than insight.
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Replying to @KurtBusiek
The multiculturalism of Heinlein's 1950s books did influence, I think, Chris Claremont's X-Men (although Claremont did it better).
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Replying to @HeerJeet @KurtBusiek
Thank god Claremont didn't pick up a copy of Farnham's Freehold.
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Replying to @KurtBusiek @PeterCashwell
Claremont was good about picking out what was nurturing & benign in Heinlein & ignoring the rest.
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