Rambo's stats, as given in the film: "Rambo, John J., born 7/6/47 Bowie, Arizona of Indian-German descent. Joined army 8/6/64.
So a German travels all the way from Europe to have sexual relations with an American Indian and produces a super-soldier. It seems to me the U.S. military would want to encourage more Germans and Indians to get married and have children.
As of the 2010 U.S. Census of the population of Bowie, Arizona was 449.
Who ever said the german came from Europe? Could have been a German- American. But anyway, it's a bit unrealistic them making him a German/Indian..Sylvester Stallone doesn't look at all Native American.
sharehe does look Indian older in Rambo 4
share" Could have been a German- American."
You mean an American?
By the way, is he supposed to be half Indian or half Native American?
shareWell, he could be glossing over his ancestry. In Cameron's original script, it was stated he is of Italian-German/Navajo ancestry, which is smart b/c with Stallone's distinctive Italian looks (nose, eyes, olive complexion) kind of hard to pass him off as anything else. The novelization omitted the German, David Morrell explains in the foreward to Rambo III "since when does Slyvester Stallone look German?"
The film doesn't even specify whether it is Native American or India Indian. The headband and bow and arrow imagery and the whole "going native" Tarzan-esque theme of the film and the character make it obvious though.
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The author definitely meant for him to be part native american.
And there were a lot of german settler communities in Kansas, Arizona, etc. You'll learn a lot about it when you hit the civil war in history class.
"The film doesn't even specify whether it is Native American or India Indian."
That's because in the 1980s, in the U.S., the word "Indian" referred to a Tonto-type Indian, not to a 7-Eleven Indian (unless otherwise specified). "Native American" is a stupid term, because everyone who was born in the United States of America is a native American, by definition. "American Indian" works fine; I don't know why the word police felt it necessary to come up with the term "Native American" instead. The most accurate term would be Aboriginal Americans.
as german I am fond of native american women. so, why not?
could be a professor for aeronautics, spacetravel... or an soldier, a merchant... a tourist. could have lived in the US for long years.