This.PSD_Kiwi wrote:Not just a “rural savages” thing, done by all classes of Khmer folk. And no, it is not cute, neither is pinching babies cheeks roughly, playfully slapping faces, arms and bums and calling babies ugly (apparently it’s a bad luck to call a baby cute, handsome, good looking, etc).
I would add, from what I know, sino-khmer often do this on a baby male, this is like "the pride of having a son" and so showing his parts leaves no doubt about his gender or so.
I even saw some posting pics of their baby parts on fb