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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5548986" data-attributes="member: 15538">So... no American cartoon can ever be anime?What about Robotech? It was made by Japanese people for Japanese people, but was later edited into a completely different show. Is it anime?Really?... Yes? I mean, it will probably say, "Made in China," somewhere on it, after all.What about cartoons made for Japanese people made by second-generation Polynesian immigrants to Japan? What about by Japanese, for Japanese, but the studio is a Time Warner subdivision?Is there something ethnic about anime? Because if it's not simply animation made in Japan, and it's not a family of animation connected by style and cultural similarties, and it really is just "animation by Japanese for Japanese," that means that basically anime is defined by the people involved, not any quality of the work itself. That's a little like saying Mexicans don't drive cars... they drive carros. And Mexicans don't eat taco sauce, they eat "salsa sauce" (like Japanese anime, get it?). And they don't drink water; when it's made by Mexicans for Mexicans, it's agua.Cordialmente,pawsplay</blockquote>