For what it’s worth — the “birthday spanking” is a bad old color blind custom, though the context where you saw it particularly highlighted how foolish it looked. It’s a dominance/submission game where instead people should be seeking to submit to a kind God only so they may stand in all else.
This was entirely different - 4 or 5
boys holding him while someone else administered then blows. I remember birthday spankings. You were right this wasn’t the same.