Lodges: The Faithful Book

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There is nothing wrong with having one of the vampires (named Emily) be of mixed white American-Japanese descent of the first generation, but using her to just once again claim that if you are an old European vampire you must be racist is really insulting. And actually sounds a bit like they are saying Americans are the super cool progressives. Not to mention that just because one parent is Japanese doesn't mean you look "different", you could still turn out white. But the book does not seem to treat Emily that way, it just calls her an Asian-American and I doubt she registered as European-American to the authors, because if she is Asian due to her mother she is also European due to her father. So I think this book has its share of racism, albeit I am sure many would say that it is not and rather progressive. Well not me, for me this is too similar to the habit of having white-non-white mixed children being assigned to the non-white parentage, whatever is defined as non-white that is.
Some other things are also weird and scream of stereotyping. The two vampire serial killers for instance are lovers and the book states that it appears on the surface as though the guy is in charge since she fawns over him, but at the same time it is obvious that she commands and he blindly follows, the book even says so, so how can it appear that he is in charge?
And it doesn't stop there. You know, it's not like this Dorjan guy isn't an imposing presence (he basically seeped his essence into the city and lords over everything) but since they already have Budapest be his playground, don't they think that it goes a bit too far towards stereotyping when they say physically, Dorján is ethnically Hungarian, large and well muscled like a laborer, with a mane of dark hair and a full beard? Sure the artwork of him is good, but it has cliché written all over it. The guy on it looks like a stereotypical Hungarian warlord with his beard, his long black hair, his grin and his fur coat and what I think are old leather clothes.
And there is another case of stereotyping. That one vampire who managed to make himself even more monstrous was stated to have once been a beautiful man of fair skin and pale straw hair and he is from Mainz (which they spell Meinz, which is incorrect, even if they wanted an older name it would have to be Meintz). Most men over here are not pale blond when they are adults. Most blonds only have pale blond as children, if ever. Oh and only wanting to speak German makes him even more of a monster apparently, because he doesn't chose to speak English. Considered that the book never says in what city he resides this is pretty arrogant to suggest that he has to speak English, I mean what if he resides in Madrid? The only thing missing would have been if they had made him a racist.
To be frank, I was already put off by the relatively large number of German sounding names in this book; it's odd considered that most of these vampires in the book are clearly Anglo-Americans.

The last two points are some significant rule breaks:
1) They have some vampires possess power combinations for which they do not possess the necessary prerequisites, said monstrous vampire would need the power to shapeshift to become so monstrous but the book doesn't list it among his powers.
2) This vampire calling herself an aspect of Hecate is ok a concept in itself but why does she and her childer have animal traits and the book claims that as part of the Gangrel curse? The Gangrel vampires in this game line do not usually acquire animal traits; that is something found rather in specific bloodlines. And her story suggests that she could transform into a wolf from the start, but vampires cannot do this when they are young, it takes time to develop that power. And this oddity is never acknowledged here.
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