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[Game of Thrones]

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[Patrick Stump / Fall Out Boy]

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[Men in Black, Agent Coulson]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Defenders of Berk/How To Train Your Dragon 2]

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[Lily Allen]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[The Brittas Empire]

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[Panic! at the Disco]

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[Frozen]

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Eh, that's kind of similar to arguments about how women got married young in the past, which is exaggerated. Kids were still kids even in the past and in less technologically advanced societies.

It is interesting that Aang had to mature quickly while at the same time he was encouraging Katara to realize that she is still young and needs to take time to play. Aang still seems to think of himself as pretty young. There's a point where Katara says "I haven't done this since I was a kid" and Aang replies "You still are a kid". But I guess the idea that he had to grow up faster than he would otherwise is still true.

Not that much. Kids back then would not have had a mentality similar in any way to what any of us experienced in middle/high-school. Children back then may have still been childish in some aspects, but they knew they'd have to take on responsibilities much earlier, and were taught to get a good wife/husband to secure a good living. It makes sense to me that Aang would have seen Katara and thought that she was a strong young woman who he got along with and that she could be a good wife in the future. Same for Katara.

It makes me think of the manga Bride's Story. There's a whole arc about two 14 y/o girls who're obsessed with securing a good husband as soon as possible.

Do you have any good nonfiction sources for this sort of thing? Or really well-researched historical fiction I suppose. I find it really interesting but there's so much disagreement out there and it's hard to know who to believe.

I'm in no way an expert, and most of what I read about cultural relativism and marrying customs has come from Cultural Anthropology by Barbara Miller.

(also it's not like it's srs bsns historical fiction, but the manga I mentioned is extremely well-researched as well, it's just very lighthearted!)

I'm curious now, tho, where did you read about pre-teen psychology that said they acted like children?

It's not about preteens acting like children. It's about preteens acting like preteens. I've mostly come at this from a developmental psychology angle plus some anthropology reading. I've been wanting to do more reading that comes at it from a more personal history approach.

Just to be clear, I'm fine with Katara being as mature as she is. But even before adolescence was acknowledged as a stage of development and people were seen as going straight from children to adults, that jump usually occurred around 14 or 15, not 12 like Aang. My point was not so much that they're both children but that 12 is generally pretty different from 14, and that's been a common view for a long time.

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