It could be by coincidence
it's called steak tartar and is a stample in many cuisines, but you wouldn't have known that...
Streak tartar is named after most barbaric, uncivilized tribes in Central Asia" Tatar " who looted, killed and ended civilization in lot of countries (Iraq, Syria, Central Asia, ....)
They were ignorant, semi human with no respect or value to human life or education. Tartar had made bridge out of Baghdad 's library, filled the river with books then they walked on them.
Raw meat symbolizes primitive state of human to era of cave age.