that's not what white man's burden is. white man's burden is the racist idea that white men have a responsibility to "help" "lesser" races by colonizing them to make them more "civilized." the first movie is more like the blue man's burden teaching jake sully that his society is ass and should die

It's clear that Cameron has a take on imperialism that is well grounded. There are sympathizers, collaborators, zealots and soldiers. They show the military working on behalf and at the behest of corporate interests. I mean fuck the guy is wearing a vest that says Project Phoenix on it.

For me it was the whole white man's burden/space pocahontas thing with the first one

Lives spent fighting for rice fields, oil fields, & poppy fields could have been better spent fighting tyranny and traitors on American soil.