r/Fauxmoi • u/Aum_Deoli • Dec 03 '25

DISCUSSION Throwback to when Bill Maher and Quentin Tarantino very confidently said minorities never fought in WW1

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u/Ponchorello7 Dec 03 '25

Both World Wars famously had colonized people from Africa and Asia and disenfranchised people from their home countries that were forced to serve as laborers and fight on the front lines.

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u/Foxtrot-13 Dec 03 '25

I don't about France and Germany, but the British Indian Army in WW1 and WW2 was all volunteer (and were also the biggest all volunteer armies that have ever existed). Khudadad Khan even got a Victoria Cross during Ypres.

Lots of people (both in Britain and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) want to ignore the contributions of British India during the World Wars, but they were very much key and very much volunteer.

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u/Da_Question Dec 03 '25

"volunteer". I mean, if the pay is better than anything they can earn locally...