• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There are a lot of assholish nations that could easily take that place, but imo there are enough references to Dalai lama in the show to assume that the fire nation is china

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        7 months ago

        Being “just a cartoon” I never thought of the dimension of it, but they literally wiped out an entire nation. Suddenly, comparing the fire nation to any current superpower seems wrong.

        • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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          7 months ago

          ?? The US famously wiped out the native population within its borders. I’m not sure what history you were taught but genocide is a very common topic.

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        7 months ago

        That’s because the air nomads are basically Tibetan monks, also annexed by China in the 1950s

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        7 months ago

        Yes, that’s how the metaphor follows through. The fire Nation destroys the air nomads the way the Chinese destroyed Tibet.