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To: lowbridge
the benefits of diversity in terms of increasing operational capacity

That's absurd. If they need an Urdu speaker he can head to the Defense Language Institute.

The real reason for this is to dilute Special Forces with unqualified plants who will encourage division and undermine force loyalty.

8 posted on 08/07/2015 5:52:29 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator

They obviously want a sleeper enemy agent on each mission.


20 posted on 08/07/2015 5:58:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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To: Regulator
Two points:

A lifetime ago I was assigned in an MI detachment on Taiwan. Makeup included 2 mainland born Chinese Americans, 1 each 2d generation Chinese and Japanese, and the balance white Americans (sorry, if you're a numbers guy - no Hispanic or Black Americans). Only 2 of us (both white) had not gone through Monterey language institute. Most of us had some issues with local culture but liked the people and their society/history etc., the differences we could laugh off, as did our counterparts & the 2 native born guys.

The ONE member of the det. who had constant problems with the locals was the American born Chinese translator...once busted for beating a Taipei bus with his umbrella while shouting "animals!". So much for racial advantages in dealing with the reality of "the old country".

And...
The Chinese considered us all to be European anyway.

73 posted on 08/07/2015 7:32:08 PM PDT by norton
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