• Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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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

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