Is Avatar Cultural Appropriation?

✯ SPECIAL THANKS: ATLACulture: script consultant and fact checker [ https://www.tumblr.com/atlaculture ] Mostly-Mundane-ATLA: consultant on water tribe appropriation [ https://www.tumblr.com/mostly-mundane... ] Kuro from The Ink Tank for providing the voice of Aaran Ehasz [ https://linktr.ee/theinktank ] ...................................................... Supporting me: ☕ Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/ZagTheRaccoon 💰 Patreon:   / zagtheraccoon   👾 Discord:   / discord   🐘 Mastodon: https://raccoon.place/@ZagTheRaccoon 📝 Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/zagtheraccoon 🐦 Twitter:   / zagtheraccoon   ...................................................... ✯ SOURCES (incomplete): Animating Race: The Production of Asian-ness in ATLA [ https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprin... ] Francis M. Agnoli – Building the Transcultural Fantasy World of Avatar [ https://journal.animationstudies.org/... ] Tibetan Representation in Avatar: The Last Airbender [ https://www.kollabsf.org/kollabsfblog... ] Arctic and Asian Indigeneities: Section on ATLA [ https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint... ] Reframing Sympathy for Indigenous Captives in ATLA [ https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewconten... ] Avatar: The Last Airbender Documentary - Avatar Spirits [    • Avatar: The Last Airbender Documentary (Fu...   ] ...................................................... ✯ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Setting The Stage 4:32 Positives First 10:52 Voice Actors 12:13 Air Nomads 14:14 Water Tribes 16:05 Accents 18:23 Traumatic World building 21:29 Wrap Up