Examples Of Imperialism In Avatar

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In Avatar there are countless references to imperialism. In the movie, Jake Sully uses an avatar to become one of the Na’vi people for the reason that humans and the Na’vi have problems with each other. Colonel Miles Quaritch gets greedy and wants the materials, specifically the material “unobtainium”, and storms Pandora with his team, ruining an abundance of the Na’vi people’s culture. That is where Imperialism comes in, they used military power to receive what they desire, something that would increase the state of the economy that they lived in. The “sky people” want the land that is home to the Na’vi since they desire to obtain resources. They wanted the material unobtainium, which is used for energy conduction, and is very rare and expensive.