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Old 04-01-2020, 07:04 AM   #386
Polydamas
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
Default Re: There's Knifework That Needs Doing

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Originally Posted by Icelander View Post
Uh... the Selous Scouts were 80% black and Joseph Khumalo is, obviously, as black as an Ndebele man can be.
I was more thinking that the people who founded the training program are a former member of the armed wing of the Nazi party who took a trip to Indochina or Algeria after 1945 for his health, a SAS veteran of the wars of decolonization, and most of the first generation of students are the kinds of Europeans who fought in the wars of decolonization in Africa.

Racial stereotypes (and willingness to learn about other cultures) are likely to be one of the factors which determines who gets recruited as an instructor; another would be exactly where the organizers spent time after the war: were they spending their free time training with Vietnamese, Congolese, or Chileans?
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