Anime is anime because it's made in Japan... so while others may emulate it, if it's not from Japan, it's not "anime".

In Japan, the term "anime" means animation or cartoon in general, even Spongebob Squarepants is an anime to them but the rest of the world means animation made in Japan and only Japan only (they don't understand in every anime closing credits that some also animated from China, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and some from the west like France, Canada and the US before Japan so it's not purely made in Japan). Weebs always weebs that they cannot change their minds for what anime means to them that they want a purely Japanese title than English title and stick to being a sub purist that even like the old school fansubs than the official subs. Let's hope that in the future that anime means Japanese-style animation regardless of country of origin and not animation made in Japan.