I keep seeing actresses or models who are trying to get the role of Katara and are trying to catch the attention of casting directors for Netflix despite the fact that they're not Native or dark skinned, let alone Inuit/Inupiat/Yupik Native
On one Tiktok where somebody actually points out how this actress shouldnt audition for Katara because she's not Inuit and the Water tribe definitely is, some weirdo is like "how do you know they're inuit -_-" like UHHHH??
Probably all the imagery that's nearly exactly copied from Northern Indigenous (namely Inuit) culture(s)??? And that's not even getting into the written dialogue & world building that mimics Northern Indigenous culture like Sokka mentioning eating seal blubber, the near genocide of the Southern water tribe, the landscape etc etc literally the ONLY thing that's asian about Sokka and Katara are their names and KIND OF the clothes they wear
The creators actually said that the water tribe is based off of the inuit people.
Earth kingdom is China
Fire Nation is imperial Japan
Air nomads are Tibetan Buddists
Exactly. So idk why Asian actresses are trying to land a role on a very obviously Inuit character when we don't even make up 2% of representation in media and in a series that gave us one of the most beloved, most well known positive examples of Native characters