Why are Asian babies so cute?

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Also not wanting to put a dampener on the Sinophobia that is Forumosa’s style de rigeur, but China’s history of cannibalism hardly makes it unique. Europeans were consuming bits of mummy into the 19th century and Crusaders munched on Mohammedans. Japanese soldiers in WW2 were also known to partake, and not because they were starving. And so on and so forth.

Did they also name the flesh though? The Chinese named flesh of young woman “tastier than lamb (不羨羊)” and called flesh of young kids as “even the bones are tender (和骨爛)”, and in general referred to human meat as “two legged lamb (兩腳羊)”.

As mentioned in this old thread:

A few thoughts on integrating here

The practice was still around when the Japanese got here. One tael of Aboriginal meat was worth 20 cash (wen). So Han Chinese people were killing aboriginals on sight. The meat of Aboriginals were said to have medical properties, and they would cook the bones until the gelatin came out, and that is referred to as Babarian Gelatin (番膏). It was a practice recorded by both Qing and Japanese officials, MacKay himself, and the last recording was in 1921.

The practice of Han Chinese eating captured Indigenous people because they believe it would keep malaria away could be found as late as 1921 in Japanese records.