Talk:Asami Sato/@comment-5306038-20130725013740/@comment-5888498-20130731234556

1-Actually, the modernization happened before, during the Meiji period. but it was slowly but surely consuming all native traditional elements, to the point a small part of it survives and fades out. If you want to use Japan as an example, the fact that they were almost totally westernized by the 40s is the proof of that.

And the traditional flag, without the rays spreading out, which is the common "hinomaru" [circle of the sun] flag, which is used presently, is EVEN older, its connotations harkening back at least to Sengoku [the civil war] period, before the Tokugawa era. Both are old flags, the sun spreading one cannot be used constantly on modern days due to connotations related to ww2, similar on how the millenia-old tradition of the "roman salute" is kinda taboo nowadays because ww2 germany used that

2-Yes, it has to do with chi flow, why the question? besides there aint many masters who talked about that, like in ATLA. No "Iroh" or "Pakku" style of character if you're speaking of masters. The best one was Tenzin but then again he's an air nomad, son of Aang himself...

3-Not guitars, more like chinese instruments modified to look like western ones, or jazz. There was VERY FEW traditional pieces if you're talking about the same show as I am.