Talk:Hiroshi Sato/@comment-4662143-20120430070646/@comment-198.109.220.6-20120501130303

um, a prosperous community does not mean that every person of a certain nationality will be sleeping on gold bricks, and over 70 years have passed for families to gamble/misspend money away, for illegitimate children to be born and abandoned, and for the socio-economic dynamic to change.

In other words, his being of fire nation descent is almost meaningless. Consider Mako as in-universe proof of this concept.