Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-99.188.240.152-20110501233040

The Fire Nation strikes me as most similar to Meiji Restoration Japan. They certainly are not "white" or "European." Industrial technology, though reasonably associated with Europe, is not solely confined to European peoples. Also, Fire Nation Industrialization makes sense, since they are familiar with combustion and, I assume, it wouldn't be as much as a leap for them to industrialize as it would be for non-Firebending Europeans.