This actually happened yesterday. Coming out of the movie Avatar yesterday, I was confronted by an older man who looked at me and asked, "If they were going to choose a country, why did it have to be Americans that lost in the end?" Apparently I look like enough of a redneck that he felt I was a good person to ask. When I said I had not thought about that, he said that he wasn't sure what was wrong with this country, that we are not even a country anymore. As he walked away, I heard him tell his wife that he liked it up until the ending.
If I were to answer, I guess I would say first that Avatar is a strictly fictional fantasy based 150 years in the future. The military action in the movie is mandated by some future company, not the US government, so the bad guys are sort of a combination of a future Exxon plus a future Blackwater. If James Cameron had made the offending company, say, Chinese, the actors would have had to be Asian actors speaking Chinese, which would likely have decreased the popularity of the film, not to mention that Asian-Americans would question why Asians were cast as the bad guys. In other words, Cameron made choices with his audience in mind.
It's fiction, dude. Get over it. Oh, and I'm just assuming you're a Republican.
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