Talk:Air Nomads/@comment-5109557-20120612224636/@comment-24.216.180.111-20120613045358

I think the air nation is built with airbenders and non-benders as well. The air temples may have just been airbenders, but I am not sure. For instance, Aang was given by his parents to the air temple. They may have been non-benders and had parents that were, perhaps. Either way there are people called air acolytes. "Although not airbenders themselves, they carry on the teachings of the Air Nomads, their culture, and their traditions through practice." Perhaps these were also the non-airbenders at the time of genocide?

This speculation aside, bending does seem to be genetic (I think it 100% is, someone in the family line has to be a bender in order for there to be more, I think). Perhaps they had sex only out of necessity to forward they're society and lived separate lives outside of that. However, I more so believe that there society is no different, non-benders and benders lived together, or at least the non-benders lived near the temples too, we may just not have seen much of it.

Wow, sorry if that was super confusing, I just started speculating out load, LoL.