Is this considered anime, or does it have to be specifically from Nipland?

50% yes.

Yea Forumsutism

Just a bunch of Yea Forumsfags

With 1 alone you are discarding a big chunk of anime.

Personally, anime is animation with heavy Japanese culture imbued.

The Last Airbender was Japanese inspired in the art style, but writing was american (as far as I remember) and setting was more Chinese like, I believe.

>no matter which combination of these you choose, you'll have a Western show that it applies to.
Exception makes the rule.