How nationalistic are your country's armed forces?

I think it is much worse in volunteer militaries. We have everyone except greens and far lefties. Most men from social democrats to true finns go to army. Neo nazies are usually not taken, since they are too weak mentally and physically, or so rare and army so large that they are not visible. Males are just more right wing on average than general population, especially after self selection. Volunteer armies are much smaller,,so the same number of neo nazis makes for much higher consentration. Self selection is also much higher.

Racism extended only towards groups that were not present in the military, like russians and arabs, while blacks, asians, turks and fenno swedes who were present were seen as normal people. Discrimination against them or racist remarks about them was not acceptable.

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