Talk:Geography of the World of Avatar/@comment-1523187-20110918014353

I've always wondered about race in this show: Clearly the Earth Kingdom is predominantly Chinese and Korean-ish, while the Fire Nation is usually Japanese (with some weird exceptions of white-looking soldiers). Water Tribe is Inuit, and the Air Nomads are, for the most part, Tibetan and Nepalese. But there are also Indians (Guru Pathik, even down to the accent) and Africans (Rough Rhino Ogodei, who is most certainly black, as well as some Full Moon Bay refugees). Even Pipsqueak, the Duke, and the Mechanist are more Caucasian than Asian, though the world is mostly based off of Asian people and cultures. Is there an explanation of this? I always thought that maybe they were from farther north, in the unexplored Fire Nation-controlled region of the Earth Kingdom, but of course this is speculation. Anyone else's thoughts?