>>212345703The characters of the original book were very diverse, because Heinlein wasn't a racist, just some type of weird conservative. But yeah the world of Starship Troopers was meant to be globalized. Johnny Rico was Filipino for example.
Heinlein changed all characters to Germanic-looking Argentineans and gave them SS looking uniforms because of muh Nazi references, muh fascist references, muh militarism bad!
It was an attempt to mock Heinlein by someone who never understood his work.