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Well, Heinlein was a liberal, if of a militarist and nuke happy bent in the years following his naval career where he helped fight Nazis, and Verhoeven didn't bother reading the book in his years as a scared Dutch child whose country was liberated, by Americans, from Nazis.
In the book "Johny Rico" is actually named Juan Rico, and his native tongue is Tagalong.
He's a Filipino.
Heinlein often did this, he'd give the MC a lot of relatable but non-identifiable characteristics for his primary audience (white men) to latch on to, then reveal details like that at the end.
It's almost like Verhoeven's hack ass should have bothered reading a 200 page novel he was paid to make a movie out of.
The movie was based on "Bug Assault on Outpost 9" so....