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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Most Americans are too dumb to realize the allegory in ATLA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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

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