Apparently this is a map showing cannibalism from ancient China through to today. Obviously that context is intentionally left out of the post unless you read Chinese which on a primarily Anglo/English speaking site is just malicious at best and down right racist at worst.
Interestingly there is no mention of the fact that at a time when China didn’t do this, the Belgians were cutting the limbs of workers for failing to hit their rubber quotas.
I hate reddit.
It’s not really cool either way. It’s just not true in either case.
Romans and western Europeans painted vikings and barbarians as undeveloped, primitive and brutish.
Western europeans painted China as undeveloped, primitive and brutish (opium wars, ww2)
Everyone is a a barbarian to someone.
To the west is anyone that doesn’t bend the knee to them.