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Class in Ba Sing Se

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    RoseChild

    [1]Sep 22, 2006
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    I think the thing that amazed me about this episode is the class division between the lower, middle and upper classes.?? Walls to keep the classes divided? Wow...Karl Marx and his works on the structure of class kept running through my??mind! Ba Sing Se is not the great place I thought the Avatar was going to find to amass a grand army. It was a great episode though!

    I guess it will be between the Water troops with Katara and Sokka's father and other warriors from other Earth Kingdom cities that will eventually fight with Aang.

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    thatother1dude

    [2]Sep 22, 2006
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    Division of social classes doesn't get more obvious then a literal giant wall seperating people of different classes.
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    WarhawK-harris

    [3]Sep 22, 2006
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    This show borrows much from Asian culture, so much??that dividing the city up based on social and economic class comes as no surprise.?? Look at China.?? Compared to South Korea and other democratic countries in Asia, communist China remains hostile to free speech for no good reason.?? If I'm wrong about any of this, feel free to point it out.
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