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