A word of yes to your post, and when you have the energy or time, I would love to read your rant about the non-English biases too: I know I walk the double-edged sword of claiming English as a native language, and yet rejecting that we must follow British/US assumptions for the use of that languages.

The anime thing also reminds me of how African people are erased from Africanist cultural appropriation. Witness The Lion King and Tarzan - two movies set wholly in the continent without a single non-white person.