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Are they actually called Tall-Man, or is that a translation?

Funnily enough, I don't think your original complaint would hold up in the Japanese language though (when they aren't using Engrish). There seem to be different words for humanity, humans and other people.

Oh no. They're called Humansᵀᵃˡˡᵐᵃⁿ. 人間 is humans.

Here's the word for Human in Japan
人間
Here's the word for Humanity
人類
I think they can still encounter some problem tho

The original meaning of humanitas denoted being humane rather than being human. It described civilised behaviour primarily. That was humanitas. It was never used in the sense of mankind entity outisde of English.

人道的 seems to be the actual word you're looking for. Humanity gets translated by google as mankind, not humane.

Hm. Think I'm actually wrong here? Translations are hard.

The Latin word humanitas corresponded to the Greek concepts of philanthrôpía (loving what makes us human) and paideia (education) which were amalgamated with a series of qualities that made up the traditional unwritten Roman code of conduct (mos maiorum).[1]

Cicero (106–43 BCE) used humanitas in describing the formation of an ideal speaker (orator) who he believed should be educated to possess a collection of virtues of character suitable both for an active life of public service and a decent and fulfilling private life; these would include a fund of learning acquired from the study of bonae litterae ("good letters", i.e., classical literature, especially poetry), ...

Insofar as humanitas corresponded to philanthrôpía and paideia, it was particularly applicable to guiding the proper exercise of power over others. Hence Cicero's advice to his brother that "if fate had given you authority over Africans or Spaniards or Gauls, wild and barbarous nations, you would still owe it to your humanitas to be concerned about their comforts, their needs, and their safety."[

Echoing Cicero over a century later, Pliny the Younger (61–112 CE) defined humanitas as the capacity to win the affections of lesser folk without impinging on greater.

The concept was of great importance during the re-discovery of classical antiquity during the Renaissance by the Italian umanisti, beginning with the illustrious Italian poet Petrarch, who revived Cicero's injunction to cultivate the humanities, which were understood during the Renaissance as grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy.

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