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Isn't Juan Rico from Brazil, and NOT from the Philipines? - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.2.192.85 (talk • contribs)
No no no! - this is a mistake made by people who have only seen the movie and not read the book!. In the movie he is from Brazil. In the book, he is never explicitly stated as being from the Philippines, but:
Little ships, the ones named for foot sloggers: Horatius, Alvin York, Swamp Fox, the Rog herself, bless her heart, Colonel Bowie, Devereux, Vercingetorix, Sandino, Aubrey Cousens, Kamehameha, Audie Murphy, Xenophon, Aguinaldo --
I said, "There ought to be one named Magsaysay."
Bennie said, "What?"
"Ramon Magsaysay," I explained. "Great man, great soldier -- probably be chief of psychological warfare if he were alive today. Didn't you ever study any history?"
and later
"Oh, that. Yup. Well, I guess every country has its own version of history."
"I'm sure of it." I added something to myself and Bennie said, "What did you say?"
"Sorry, Bernardo. Just an old saying in my own language. I suppose you could translate it, more or less, as: `Home is where the heart is.' "
As you can see from the references to Ramon Magsaysay, and Tagalog, Rico is almost certainly of Filipino background, if not from the Philippines directly.
The article also makes reference, in the first line, that it is a listing of the book characters, and that the movie versions may be somewhat altered.
