His father barely tolerated him, and when he dared to speak out, he was forced into a life or death duel with him.
The entirety of Zuko and Azula's relationships with their parents. Is it any wonder why he had so many issues to deal with!? And considering how devotion to one's parents was often associated with one's devotion to the state, Zuko wasn't just defying his father, he was defying the Fire Nation itself. Per Confucious, "In serving his parents, a filial son reveres them in daily life he makes them happy while he nourishes them he takes anxious care of them in sickness he shows great sorrow over their death and he sacrifices to them with solemnity." Zuko sincerely believed that it was entirely his fault for being banished because he tried to defy his father by opposing the general's decision to use Fire Nation soldiers as sacrifices in the war against the Earth Kingdom. Before his Heel≯ace Turn, Zuko's desperate attempts to gain the approval of his father and restore his honor in his eyes become ever more tragic considering the huge emphasis most Asian cultures place on filial piety. Though it was subtle and not talked about overtly, Zuko mocks some of the forgiveness teachings the monks taught Aang in "The Southern Raiders". Really drives home awful the Written by the Winners trope is. How Aang learns in "The Headband" how the Fire Nation schools teach the next generation that the Air Nomad Genocide wasn't one but a battle between two nations with their own armies. A subtle example of someone innocently dehumanizing his people. Hurts double since Aang would discover the corpse of his beloved teacher and Parental Substitute, Gyatso. Pre- Heel≯ace Turn Zuko makes a nasty comment about how Aang wouldn't know what it's like to have a father since he was raised by monks. Plus, she's saying this to a child younger than her grandkids. Kanna's line about Air Nomads being "extinct", it's like she's talking about animals instead of people. 
Tying into the above example, just the casual, and sometimes, insensitive disrespect the Air Nomads are given and how Aang is forced to deal with.
He gets frozen and wakes up a hundred years later, with no idea what happened to his culture until he actually sees his best friend and mentor, dead, a skeleton. He grows close to Monk Gyatso, and then runs away when he thinks that theyll be separated. The monks tell him before he's sixteen, unlike the traditional customs, because of the war.
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