• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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      8 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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          8 months ago

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

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          8 months ago

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