In America, there are generally two types of people who join the military (stereotypically). One, people from poor economic backgrounds who are seeking to take advantage of the benefits provided to veterans and military personnel (job security, good health insurance for the entire family, scholarships for college, etc). And two, people who *want* to join the military because they actually believe it and its purpose to be good.
The people from the latter category are very often right-wing/conservative, tend towards being racist/sexist, heavily christian, and, lately, much more likely to be Trump supporters.
As such, most leftist Americans, as well as many liberals, tend to have a negative view of category 2. At best, they are viewed as meatheads.
But I'm curious if this stereotypical view of military personnel carries over into countries that haven't been the "world police" since WWII, haven't deposed a country's democratically elected leaders for purposes of oil (and bananas) in the past 100 or so years, whose militaries have been considerably less "internationally involved" (to be polite), and whose populaces generally tend to be a little less racist/sexist and a little more liberal?