Just A Little Something I’ve Been Working On For A While
just a little something I’ve been working on for a while
This is the intro:
The year was 2045. Gene editing had advanced greatly through the aid of CRISPR/Cas9 and had been legalized and approved by the United Nations. It was being utilized by scientists, doctors, and genetic researchers in order to create a new race of “superhumans,” who had abilities beyond imagination. This first generation was otherwise known as “Generation G,” which led the endeavor itself to be known as “Project: Generation G.” For a few years, people marveled at the work of the researchers. So many incurable genetic diseases that plagued the past could be prevented and therefore extended the life of an individual, not to mention the countless miraculous abilities that could be given to otherwise regular humans.
Then, the unthinkable happened. In 2050, just five years later, one of these revered superhumans burned down a children’s residential school in Tokyo. There were no survivors. It was clear that the deed was done out of malicious intent, and that the perpetrator had accomplices. This was the spark that spread the fire of hate for superhumans among the common people. They were viewed as freaks and abominations of nature who had no place in civilized society. Such was the uproar that caused the UN to outlaw gene editing once and for all, and to eliminate all the subjects of Project: Generation G. They intended to have no survivors left to wreak havoc on humanity.
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This!!! This hits so close to home for me especially as an Indian person. It's honestly so hypocritical when this happens too, because the same people that mocked our culture, or food, or way of life pull a 180 and suddenly feel like they can appropriate it because apparently it's cool now.
(OP said it better and I also apologize for cutting in, but this is so important)
you know what? i’m gonna say it. atla was a huge part of my childhood. it was definitely a step forward in regards to cartoons.
but the racial insensitivity is staggering. and i wanna talk about the amount of exploiting there is of south asian culture specifically. i’m south asian, indian specifically, and i grew up watching this show that was supposed to be “different” and “inspiring” for people of colour.
except there were little to no characters with dark skin who had importance and were explicitly made out to be south asian. that was fine. i was used to not seeing characters on television who looked like i did. except this show used my culture. they used my culture and they couldn’t even bother putting in good characters who looked like they remotely belonged to that culture, even if they were minor and not part of the gaang.
first of all, the show has a lot of influence from Hinduism—the word avatar (avatāra) itself means “descent” in Sanskrit, referring to the incarnation of a deity in human form. where did Hinduism originate?
indus valley, or what we now call pakistan, a south asian country. the entire concept of chi or prana, as it is referred to as in Hinduism, is a reoccurring theme in atla; your vital energy, your spiritual energy. this is another one of the religion’s influences on the show.
atla also talks about the seven chakras. this is another concept from Hinduism, and in the religion, they must always be unblocked for your prana (the term from Hinduism) or chi (the Chinese term which is used the show) to flow smoothly. chi is your life energy.
so. guess who helps aang out with his chakras?
right. this guy. the only blatantly south asian character we’ve gotten so far, and you wanna know why it’s so blatant? because he’s literally an indian stereotype. he’s the only obviously south asian character so far in the show and he’s a racist portrayal of enlightened practitioners of Hinduism. great.
oh, and before i forget—
do their foreheads look familiar? oh yeah, that’s because it’s literally copied off of this:
this is Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. they used a religious symbol in Hinduism to make a couple characters look cool. well, combustion man and p’li both have these third eyes, so we can assume they are at least south asian coded—but what are their characters like?
villains. unhinged. insane. we don’t even know combustion man’s name—we just know he’s a contract killer who would murder a child for the right price. p’li wants to dismantle all forms of government and let the world reign free in chaos, and finally she is given a horribly grotesque death: she gets her head blown off.
for all of the culture references that are important pieces of this show, you’d think there’d be an area that has south asian people. there isn’t one. i’m not going to speak about the other loads of racism in atla because i don’t belong to those cultures, but here’s my two cents.
this show was written by white men who did the bare minimum. it’s nothing worth praising.
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