i will never forgive atla for putting a traditional korean hairstyle on top of chinese clothing in the region meant to be based off our japanese colonizers

no wonder people can't tell the difference between elements of east asian culture these days ,, it's bc they grew up watching shit like this

and i'm willing to bet they named her "ta min" (which sounds chinese) after queen min (korean) ,, which doesn't make it better because again ,, the fn is wayy too heavily based off imperial japan

tw // colonialism, r*pe

japan colonized us for over 30 years, raped hundreds of thousands of our women, and waited until 2015 to give us a half ass apology for what they did to us and offered a measly $8 MILLION to korea in reparations

so yeah, i'm going to stay angry for the way bryke was extremely insensitive to this & just cherry picked the parts of our cultures that they thought was Cool and smashed them together

anyways bringing this back to explain why smashing cultures together is bad https://twitter.com/chosuh_/status/1319147252615700483

i've had people bring this up twice under this thread and more times in the past so i'm going to address it: the firenation /is/ based on imperial japan (google) & when you bring up examples of korean/chinese culture in the fn you're proving my point of orientalism in atla