Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-108.84.29.170-20110327025856

the fire nation is more of a mixture of japanese and han chinese (the ethnicity, not the dynasty) its part japanese in in terms of its industrialisation, imperialisation, some of its architecture, technology-advancement, way of sitting(kneeling), island nation

it's part chinese because of its han-style clothing, food (especially during that party in the Beach esp), hair, language(the writing), dragons (the chinese have this saying that they are the "descendants of the dragon", and the colour red (most celebrated colour in the country historically speaking)

but the mixture is concentrated in the names there are names that go both ways, such as mai, zuko chinese:zhao, lu ten japanese: roku, shinu

words such as yu yan archers

there are two sorts of bows in the series too: the one to the generals is more japanese with the simple bending of the upper body; the other is very much a chinese one (seen when aang is in the fire nation school)

and of course, there are little exceptions of aspects of other cultures too, seen in the wedding scene of avatar roku when the bride wears a korea-style wedding dress & hair source: i major in asian studies