[ SECRET POST #2079 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2079 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 057 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/jSVAQ.png

[(Anonymous)]

This secret is good and you should feel good. Rock on, OP.

[sensualcoco.livejournal.com]

Well Korra's awesome and more shows should strive to be like it.

[visp]

Soo... you're from the Water Tribe?

[(Anonymous)]

Silly. Names and clothing design were inspired/taken from/by different tribes up north. One in particular, Yakone, means 'blood on the snow'. That is a real word, not just a made up 'water tribe' name.

[(Anonymous)]

I assumed OP meant Inuit.

[visp]

I suppose that would make sense.

[(Anonymous)]

lol mte.

[littlestbirds]

I only recently got into ATLA/LoK as an adult and this is part of why it blew me away. I don't know what your culture is, but the level of racist bullshit western media seems to think is acceptable for asian characters really weirds me out. Like BBC Sherlock, I was confused why a show with such an obviously high production standard thought it was cool to base an entire episode on the assumption that everyone from China lives in Chinatown and is either an acrobat or a ninja. Like, honest confusion, how do you even do that???
Anyway, fuzzy feelings about Avatar :)

[othellia]

Not to mention that it only makes the Sherlock fans' Lucy Liu hate that much more disconcerting. :\

[fenm]

I like Sherlock, and I've seen the Elementary pilot and thought Liu was great in it.

Not all Sherlock fans hate her or the show or whatever.

[othellia]

Sorry, didn't mean to make it seem like all Sherlock fans hate Lucy Liu. (I love both shows as well.) Just that of those fans who really seem to hate her while declaring the Moffat version superior without even giving the new show a chance, the Blind Baker episode makes me side-eye them a bit more than I would without that ep.

[sachiko_san]

Why would Chinese people be ninjas? I don't even

[(Anonymous)]

Because of their secretly epic kungfu skills allow them to walk short distances in hair, shoot killer poisoned needles with their fingers, and hang up-side-down from a ceiling beam?

[littlestbirds]

well, martial arts expert? Uh, I just did something racist while complaining about racists, didn't I. I did not realize that a ninja was a kind of japanese warrior. Thanks for pointing that out, I will fix it :\

ETA: or just feel silly since I can't edit comments that have been replied to!

[(Anonymous)]

There are similarities between fictional Chinese wuxia warriors and Japanese ninjas so I can see how people might confuse the two. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia, 1.1 Earlier precedents and 2.2 Skills and abilities.

[(Anonymous)]

Except for the part where said culture gets hopelessly mutilated in order to appeal to a Western audience...

[countess_k]

A:TLAB yes. Many times yes.

Korra, I'm not so sure. They went a little too Saturday morning cartoony with that. Like what happened to bending each element being part of a particular culture/nation's background? Suddenly we have two brothers bending two different elements like it's a professional sport. I always associated bending with something deeply spiritual and rooted within a certain culture's ancestry.

[(Anonymous)]

well, first of all, I've been assuming that Bolin and Mako are of mixed parentage (one is from the fire nation colonies and one is from the earth kingdom).

second of all, I think part of the whole conceit of setting LoK in Republic city was to show how bending would be part of a society in the midst of industrialization/modernization (i.e. pro bending, metal-bending police, lightning-bending power plant). And, much like many things from people's cultural ancestry in modern times, the spirituality of it seems to get sidelined for the practical applications.

I can see why it seems more cartoony to you, though, because the whole bending based jobs thing reminds me of the uses of dinosaurs in the Flintstones or pokemon in Pokemon.

[visp]

But that's often how it goes, with things considered sacred by one generation seen as more mundane a few generations down. Like surfing or chocolate.

[littlestbirds]

Huh. This is an excellent point. Actually settles a few unresolved issues I had with LoK...

Also random: I really like your new icon!

[visp]

Thanks.

[(Anonymous)]

Republic City is a melting pot of different cultures, it makes sense there would be mixed benders. Also, there were a lot of firenation colonies in the earth kingdom. I'd be surprised if there weren't more people of earth/fire nation decent

[(Anonymous)]

Bolin and Mako are mixed race, Earth Kingdom/Fire Kingdom. They took after different sides of the family. Pro-bending is something that existed in the original cartoon- remember Toph competing in earthbending tournaments?- that has evolved to incorporate the three available elements.

Korra really brings into question what role ancestry has in being a bender, especially as Katara and Aang, two powerful benders, managed to have a non-bender.

Number two of (http://diglossia-fic.livejournal.com/81359.html#cutid1) addresses this issue.

[nyxelestia]

1.) Love this! Definitely a big fan of how they well-represent so many non-Western cultures in the show without butchering them into inappropriate stereotypes.

2.) ...but what does Two Broke Girls have to do with it? (I haven't seen the show yet and I haven't heard much about it, so I'm just curious.)