Honestly, the plotting of the netflix show felt like they wanted to piss off people concerned with cultural appropriation.
I mean, Danny basically gets the most powerful weapon of the people who saved him, and what does he do? Pisses off back home to reclaim his life/millions. Super douche move.
To counter the white savior, and Danny being a dick in the series, all they had to do was say that Danny was the latest in the long line of Iron Fists, and that the ruling council sent him out into the world to find and fight The Hand, over the objections of another faction of the Council that wanted him to just stand guard.