What is Juan Ricos race in Starship Troopers?
At the end of the book, Rico makes reference to [Ramon] Magsaysay, a great Filipino hero, and mentions that his family’s native tongue is Tagalog (the principal language of the Phillipines). Many Filipinos have Spanish names. Q.E.D. Rico is Filipino. (References are often made to a Samuel Delany essay in which Rico is mentioned as being black. Rico is not black.
