Avatar: The Last Airbender, Anime?

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I consider Avatar: The Last Airbender to be a mutt.

I love the show and it definitely has more depth than an average American cartoon, so I do not classify it with those, but it is also not from Japan, so there are those who would disagree with it being an anime. It's probably a question that will be up forever in the otaku culture, but I consider it one, none-the-less.