I must confess. I was totally unaware that butt competitions were sprouting up across the globe until China's Women's Beautiful Buttocks competition popped up on my feed. It seems that several publications are content with positioning China's competition as a knock off of Brazil's Miss BumBum competition, which began in 2011. Of course Brazil, the honorary Mecca of big bottoms was first.  Still it is quite interesting that a global infatuation with the booty persists in countries that perhaps 15 years ago would have only celebrated pancake bums.