Talk:Bending arts/@comment-201.42.190.193-20120318125254/@comment-97.82.23.199-20120415020140

The word race has never been brought up in the entire avatar series and i challenge you to bring the statement by the creators that they were 'multiracial'. NO they said they were 'multicultural'. Multicultural does not equate to being of multiple races. I AM MULTICULTURAL. I have many different cultures running through my veins. In fact many americans do. Especially if you are a white american whos ancestors from all over europe interbred because of mass immigration into north america from europe.

And no...a person who is of chinese & japanese heritage is not multiracial no matter how much you wish it to be so,nor how much you think they are.

Chinese and japanese are ETHNICITIES. NOT RACES. Both the chinese and the japanese as well as the Inuit and native americans are ASIAN. They are of the mongoloid race that split off from the caucasoid race nearly 40,000 years ago. Migrating out of africa the two groups split off. One going into Europe and the middle east and others heading further east and evolving into what is now known as asians.

Native Americans and the inuit peoples descend from central asian populations that crossed the ice bridge that connected Eurasia and North America. They evolved further in north america and became what we know today as the indigenous peoples of north america.

Calling someone of two asian ethnicities the same race is just false.

You are right about one thing though. A japanese person probably would be offended if you called someone that has a chinese or korean parent japanese. The japanese are notoriously xenophobic and tend to hate all outsiders(gaijin).

The japanese and the chinese may be of the same race,but they have a horrible history together and dislike each other very much.

http://www.racebending.com/v3/press/the-last-airbender-timeline/

As stated above in this link the characters and the world of avatar are ''asian. ''calling someone of two asian lineages multiracial is just dumb and by that definition every white american is multiracial. Its like saying a person with Irish and Italian ancestry is multiracial.