I'm not saying I agree with the points being made by the particular OP whose examples you quote. But I think the quote isn't what it seems.
That statement about the Western story is not ignoring that Korra had a youth filled with combat training. The point being made in it is that someone who had that training should be acting like a cocky Western hero and should want to learn about the style being used against her, chiblocking. That martial artist stories have the learner being humbled because the teacher/teachers do incredible things, so at the end Korra should have been less cocky and more curious or hypercompetitive when it came to fighting skills, so would want to learn more about chiblocking. I'm not the OP, but that's what I read in the statement when reading the context here: http://bankuei.tumblr.com/post/25033490034/seekingwillow-thechocolatedandy.
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That statement about the Western story is not ignoring that Korra had a youth filled with combat training. The point being made in it is that someone who had that training should be acting like a cocky Western hero and should want to learn about the style being used against her, chiblocking. That martial artist stories have the learner being humbled because the teacher/teachers do incredible things, so at the end Korra should have been less cocky and more curious or hypercompetitive when it came to fighting skills, so would want to learn more about chiblocking. I'm not the OP, but that's what I read in the statement when reading the context here: http://bankuei.tumblr.com/post/25033490034/seekingwillow-thechocolatedandy.