Talk:Air Nomads/@comment-95.96.128.2-20120626213257/@comment-174.126.178.49-20120629233827

In the reading above, all people of the Air Nation were benders because of their level of spirituality. Since the spiritual ways were almost destroyed (Aang, the only airbender that we know of surviving the genocide) that Aang's children are the only airbenders left. As introduced in the season finale of Legend of Korra, Tenzin's brother, Bumi (crazy commander haha) isn't an airbender because Amon supposedly had the only 4 airbenders left, they being Tenzin and his 3 children,right before he tried to remove their bending. I am suggesting that for some reason out of the 3 sons Aang had, Tenzin was the only airbender so maybe their is something to do with a "pure airbending couple" like you said since Aang's wife Katara (waterbender) and Tenzin's wife aren't airbenders. Maybe their is somekind of genetic code that allows someone to be an airbender or not. For all we know, all the air nomads only married within their race making the pure airbending blood that much bigger. My other suggestion is that maybe the level of spirituality of an individual also deteremines whether someone is a bender or not. Perhaps Aang's 2 sons who are not airbenders might've either genetically or spiritually not had the gift. Perhaps they did genetically have the gift and they just needed to become more spiritual in order to bring out their bending. I personally believe that it's a combination of both and that things happened for a reason. All very interesting stuff!