Can't Remove Certain Font Families From "Font Book" 4.1

Having gone through my new 2013 iMac's "Font Book" files, and deleted those fonts that I don't feel are relivent for me, I stlll find the following OSX installed fonts not able to be removed from "Font Book" 4.1, under the "all fonts" and "computer" sidebar menu listing:
Can't remove these ten font families:
- Baoli SC
- Lantinghei SC
- Lantinghei TC
- Libian SC
- Wawati SC
- Wawati TC
- Weibei SC
- Weibei TC
- Xingkai SC
- Yuanti SC
I was able to remove/delete many fonts by simply using "command + mouse click" to bring up a pop-up menu window that gave me the option to "Remove (Font Name) Family".
In the ten fonts, listed above, the "Remove (Font Name) Family" selection is greyed out.
If I select the "Enable (Font Name) Family" in the pop-out options selection window, for each of the ten fonts above, I am presented with a "Font Book" top pop-up window ... indicating that the fonts have to be "Downloaded in Order to be Enabled".
Even if I get the ten fonts above, downloaded to "Font Book" 4.1 ... when I go back to the pop-out option window to remove the font family (not greyed out now), and select "Remove (Font Name) Family", the downloaded family fonts in that main folder are deleated, but the main folder is still there .... and can't be removed.
Even though the ten font families listed above have been turned "OFF" by me, or "disabled" ... is there some way to get these remaining font folders out of my "Font Book" 4.1 app window.
Any ides or thoughts?

DavidMac wrote:
It's kind of strange, since all of these remaining ten font families are "international" fonts, which you would assume Apple would allow an "English" font user to delete.
Apple is really not interested in helping users delete fonts.  In iOS it's impossible to  either add or remove them, and we can only hope OS X keeps what flexibility it currently has.  In addition, Apple gets over 60% of its revenue from abroad, with China probably the major engine for future sales growth, so it has gone an extra mile to make the OS more attractive to Chinese users.  This includes the ten font families which Apple prefers, probably for size reasons, to install only if the user wants them enabled, but has to keep the names present so the Chinese user will know he can have them if he wants them.
It's not totally clear to me why you want to remove things.  Can't you just use the Collection column to keep the list you see limited to English or whatever?

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