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Are we the baddies? (i.imgur.com)
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Imagine seeing a brutal depiction of genocidal imperialism in media and referring to it as 'assholish'

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The Dalai Lama references are from the Air Nomads, not Fire Nation

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 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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