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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2010-05-11 08:40 pm

[ SECRET POST #1225 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1225 ⌋

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Re: OP again

[identity profile] ketita.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
I think that there's a little bit too much conflation of race and culture, honestly. The fact that this is obviously heavily influenced by East Asia is obvious, as is the fact that many characters aren't supposed to be Caucasian.
However, considering natural human diversity, it makes sense that in the prehistory of the series different races could have developed, but that because of a different playout of history, the cultural distribution ended up different.
If you look at their world map, there's basically one huge "continent" (or several interconnected ones), and a lot of very large islands. Even if, like in our world, man had started evolving in a certain central area, they could have spread out and evolved separately for a while, creating racial diversity, before cultures intermingled the way we see on the show.

Actually, I find the geo-political distribution on the show completely bizarre. I mean the entire world divided essentially into 4 empires? And really, why isn't there just a bit more cultural diversity? /tangent

Anyway, though. The point I was trying to make is that there being some genetically Caucasian characters doesn't mean they didn't adapt to the dominating culture of the ATLA world.