Talk:Bending arts/@comment-201.42.190.193-20120318125254/@comment-71.8.67.138-20120401135546

You don't get it. There are no racial traits outside of different eye colors in the World of Avatar. Bending is not genetic and it can't be passed down. The bending arts were learned and before that everyone energybent. The creators have specifically said that bending arts are not passed down through lineage. If the ability to bend is not through lineage then the only logical conclusion is that the element for which you can bend is not based on lineage.

Itis simple logic and i can't understand why YOU can't understand. The ability to bend is a spiritual and let me reiterate:Fire benders learned to bend from dragons,Airbenders from bisons,Water tribe from the moon,Earth benders were taught by the badgermoles.

Something that can be taught can't be passed down through lineage,at least not in a genetic sense. Is there some way bending or the element you can bend can be passed down through spiritual means? Maybe,but the creators have so far said that bending is not passed down through lineages.

There are no 'races' the way we know them in our world in the Avatarverse. Are there different ethnic groups? Of course. That is what the four nations are;Ethnic groups. Although the Earth kingdom has many,many ethnic groups. I just can't through watching the episode where Zuko and Iroh met Jet and were passing through earth kingdom to Ba Sing se. No one thought of them as different races. No one said "You have amber eyes...are you of fire nation descent?" no one noticed them as any different than other earth kingdom subjects.

Jet imself has dark tanned skin...is he a water triber?

The claims that the four nations are different races(subspecies) are dubious when there does not seem to be enough racial traits to mark them as different races.