• 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

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

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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

        The earth nation exists with a whole theme about being the great stagnant central state empire getting overshadowed by an upstart nation going through industrial revolution first doesn’t give you any hints? Not even the queues and qibao?