general rule: species that have hair/fur/feathers in adulthood but are born or hatch bare…ugly. birds hatched without fuzz, ugly as anything. birds with fuzz, cutest thing on Facebook. pinky mice, nope. fuzzy mice, absolutely.
rule does not apply to things with exoskeletons, scales etc I agree Asian babies are ugly as fuck at birth. as are all human babies, including my own. it takes serious amounts of brain powered love to push through that reality. and we are luckily programmed to deal with that. it is no wonder so many species just say fuck it and leave their babies to fend for themselves.
I imagine this is due to you being 1/2 Asian. We’re wired to identify with babies that look like us, I also imagine because we once had to separate what we could eat and what we could not eat.
I love my neighbor’s baby. When we walk together, the wife and she walk and I push the carriage. The whole time, I’m trying to make eye contact with the baby. It’s wild. Every time she smiles at me, I get less inclined to devour her and more inclined to protect her from bears.
in canada, we are wired differently. I was always called a China baby by family and friends when I was born. the white folks where I grew up spend extra energy complimenting babies not of their race. I like to tell said friends of parents now, no, taiwan baby, dont be a tool. fun times, especially with moms friends from China.
In Taiwan, most people would consider Caucasian babies to be extremely cute. Since the compliment many elderly people will give about a baby is that they look like a 洋娃娃. Sure that word can mean a doll, but it literally means a foreign baby.
Got a couple of friends living in the US with half Taiwanese and half Caucasian babies, and they are indeed pretty darn cute.
When my second child was born, there was a row of sweet Taiwanese babies (with hair!) all cuddly and yawning cutely- and one big red squalling bald-headed lump with a rash on his cheeks squalling angrily: that was mine.
In Taiwan, I was considered a “white baby” but in the U.S, I would’ve been considered an Asian baby since I did look very Asian. (I say “would’ve” because I didn’t move to the U.S. until I was 2)