Multinational organisations in games/books/films

[Jakub324]

I like it when a clearly multinational body contains characters of different countries, but when it's an existing organisation belonging to one country, it kinda irks me. Crysis did this. Delta with Jason Statham? I respect them for not being as gung-ho as every American soldier in every game ever, but that's too much surely?
On the other end of the scale, the Killzone series. I remember one non-American person (not including the news reader in K2's intro). That won't do!
Halo did the opposite. A multitude of accents, from South African to Australian to Central African.
What do you think?

 

[WolfThomas]

Sometimes reality is unrealistic, my mate who is a rifleman in the Australian Army has a corporal whose a much older Russian guy who actually has served in Afghanistan twice, once with the Australian army and the other time with the Russian army back in their invasion of Afghanistan. But if you were watching a film or playing a game and there was this guy with no explanation you'd think it was strange. Likewise another guy he knew joined the Israeli Defense force after finishing his service, so you have this Australian over there. I've read of at least two Englishmen who fought in Vietnam after signing up with the US army.

As for special forces, I read this one book by a SAS sniper who was a New Zealander who'd served with the British Royal Marines in Northern Ireland before joining the Australian army.

In this day and age I don't think it's that impossible to have somebody of a different nationality on the team.

 

[stangman]

i just like it when the the villians from another country(Germany,Fance,China, Mars, etc.) are alone and talking to each other, and speaking perfect english.

 

[Jadak]

I am perfectly fine with, regardless of setting, all actors are American-ish and english speaking. When I'm watching/playing a game, exposure to diversity is the last thing that makes a difference to me.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Sometimes reality is unrealistic, my mate who is a rifleman in the Australian Army has a corporal whose a much older Russian guy who actually has served in Afghanistan twice, once with the Australian army and the other time with the Russian army back in their invasion of Afghanistan. But if you were watching a film or playing a game and there was this guy with no explanation you'd think it was strange. Likewise another guy he knew joined the Israeli Defense force after finishing his service, so you have this Australian over there. I've read of at least two Englishmen who fought in Vietnam after signing up with the US army.

As for special forces, I read this one book by a SAS sniper who was a New Zealander who'd served with the British Royal Marines in Northern Ireland before joining the Australian army.

In this day and age I don't think it's that impossible to have somebody of a different nationality on the team.

That UK SAS patrol that was captured in the previous Gulf War (Bravo Two Zero, IIRC), had one Australian and one New Zealander in it.

Though, depends on the nations involved. Multicultural nations with lots of immigrants are likely to have this sort of thing, and Commonwealth nations tend to let people trained in other Commonwealth nations serve.