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Yeah the fire nation is very obviously imperial Japan, the earth kingdom is late Qing dynasty China, and the fire nation colonies are very obviously a parallel to Manchuko/Korea.
It's not that deep. It's just pulling from history to flesh out its world building. The show has plenty of interesting things to say, but that's not among them.
Libs trying to retroactively make the fire nation be a metaphor for China, give me the same insane vibes as evangelicals trying to make.. IDK biblical references to Babylon actually be references to modern Russia or whatever.
Well cartoons, Marvel, and Harry Potter are basically the Bible for libs so it makes sense they'd try to make these kinds of dumb, half-literate comparisons
It fucking sucks too, because I'm all for thoughtfully reading texts and parsing interesting meanings and interpretations from them, to see what's being said.
But holy shit, libs, I'm begging y'all, please stop making the most shallow, nonsense readings. No, Vladimir Putin is not Voldemort, this isn't what your highschool English class was trying to impart!