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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

He's actually referring to "The Last Airbender" the movie, and not "Avatar: The Last Airbender" the show.
Show is much much muuuuuch better.
And to highlight what he's speaking about, in the show:
Air Nomads: In the show they are based on Tibetan monks. In the movie, given the nomadic nature, they're sort of a hodgepodge of all sorts of races.
Water Tribe: In the show they are based on Eskimo and northern southern american indians. In the movie, they're more caucasian/off white.
Earth Kingdom: In the show, I feel they're the hodgepodge group, with a very very strong chinese influence. But they give me the impression of caucasian or african races exist in this oworld, they would be found there. In the movie, they are asian/chinese.
Fire Nations: In the show, they are based on Japanese culture. In the movie, they are east indian.

Yeah, that's what I was pointing out between the show and movie. Used it as an example because everyone calls it whitewashed, and in reality it's not at all. It's an epic series (though the first book is slow until the end), but the movie has got problems. Just not the problems people assume. They immediately go to the race as the issue and blame that when the problems are much deeper than that in just bad story-telling. The race changes could have really worked in the movie's favor and has a lot of forethought it seems when you look at the potential food style of the movie's fire nation. The problem with tv shows, and really all visual media that's not live action is that audiences will project themself onto a race or a character if it's just a little similiar. I have a friend who swears up and down that katara and sokka are black(they aren't, they are more eskimo/ethnic off-white), that Kimura from Marvel is black (She's actually more likely from latin descent). Pretty much any character with a tan for one issue for one episode of a show is black to him.

Which to me gets old real quick as I don't seperate characters based on appearance but on heritage or parentage. I also get annoyed repeatedly at those that assume all anime automatically means asian characters. Every character that's well made has a full history and heritage. Caucasians end up in series too.

Like if they ever make a gunsmith cats movie, Rally Vincent must be native american and caucasian mixed, while minnie may needs to be a little caucasian girl. For those two, Race is what directly attributes to their history and personalities and what they've gone through in life. Just like with the supernatural anime, Dean and Sam aren't all of a sudden Japanese.