Talk:Bending Arts/@comment-88.188.170.195-20110424193100/@comment-94.12.204.45-20110425215310

Well, waterbenders bend water. Earthbenders bend earth. That's the difference.

I guess the difference in personality is that earthbenders are a lot slower to act, and they prefer to stand their ground rather than fleeing (like when Toph wanted to stay and fight Azula, Mai and Ty Lee in The Chase). Waterbenders are more open to alternative ways of attacking, instead of just charging at the enemy head on, and so on.

From what I've learned through the course of the series, however, waterbenders and earthbenders are both equally stubborn (although that might just be Katara :P).