If that happened in the real world, that would be one thing.
But these people were written with the end goal of creating the United Republic so that Korra could happen, not with the goal of being an exploration of the actual dynamics of colonization. Saying "well the people wanted that" doesn't carry any water when those people are fictional and it serves the creators' needs to have the characters want that. It's an easy out for the writers, nothing more.
If that happened in the real world, that would be one thing.
But these people were written with the end goal of creating the United Republic so that Korra could happen, not with the goal of being an exploration of the actual dynamics of colonization. Saying "well the people wanted that" doesn't carry any water when those people are fictional and it serves the creators' needs to have the characters want that. It's an easy out for the writers, nothing more.
Ok, that's more or less what I thought, basically fine in story, but not fine to write