![]() The rest of the world calls the game “Telephone”. At best it seems to suggest that communicating with Chinese people will lead to confusion it very possibly implies that Chinese people are inferior to colonial-era British people. The evidence seems quite strong that the phrase “Chinese Whispers” has a pejorative meaning. This article doesn’t ask if people playing a game called Chinese Whispers without any knowledge of the origin of the term are being racist. It seems rather obvious that if someone has no idea that they are doing something racist then they by definition are not, because racism requires intent. If that’s the case, I’m afraid this is not a very interesting argument to me. a group of children playing a game they know to be called Chinese Whispers are not being racist if they are not aware of the possible racist origin of the name. Your argument appears to be that intent is the determining factor as to whether something is racist or not, i.e. ![]() I have never heard the game of Chinese whispers referred to as telephone before so I suspect that most people in UK would be unfamiliar with it also (similar to how we know the song as “okey cokey” but the rest of the world knows it as “hokey pokey”). I have been using the term “Chinese whispers” all my life (though not often, as I kind of grew out of this game fairly early on) without any thought to its origin. So when something goes completely wrong due to incompetence or stupidity leading to mass confusion, it got called a Chinese firedrill, the implication being that Chinese are stupid, and they can’t communicate clearly. It basically got blamed on the Chinese for being stupid. Chinese firedrill is named after a fire drill done on a ship with Chinese crew who didn’t understand what was going on, the end result being it all got screwed up. You may not know, because I didn’t know until I looked it up very recently, that the term is a very colonial one (late 19th, early 20th century British empire) and refers to a game which most of the rest of the world knows as “ Telephone“.Īs far as I have been able to determine, Chinese whispers is derived from another phrase, Chinese fire drill. I remember grabbing onto my students, running out, crying, they didn't see me because they're small, but my heart was racing.Here’s something I’ve been pondering recently. three gunshots, loud explosions, and all the teachers are telling us to run. I was in the history hallway, and as soon as we heard the alarms, everybody just started leaving following the same procedure as.( a) practice fire drill, and next thing you know, we just hear. We were told to go back into the building.Įven if we have a fire drill and we use diesel to set a small fire we have to calculate the amounts, these are chemical reactions so we know that if you set fire to one liter of diesel you know how much carbon will come out.Įvery single source that could have emissions connected to it has to be identified and controlled, even if we have a fire drill and we use diesel to set a small fire we have to calculate the amounts. ![]() We thought it was a fire drill, we started to exit. ![]() ![]() Fire alarm tests are often done outside normal business hours so as to minimize disruption of building functions in schools, they are often done when students and staff are not around or during the holidays where specialist fire alarm engineers test alarms in the building for repair if needed. In addition to fire drills, most buildings have their fire alarm systems checked on a regular basis to ensure that the system is working. Generally, the evacuation is timed to ensure that it is fast enough, and problems with the emergency system or evacuation procedures are identified to be remedied. Fire drill procedures may vary depending on the building type, such as hospitals or high rise buildings, where occupants may be relocated within the building as opposed to evacuating the building. In most cases, the building's existing fire alarm system is activated and the building is evacuated by means of the nearest available exit as if an emergency had actually occurred. Wikipedia Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĪ fire drill is a method of practicing how a building would be evacuated in the event of a fire or other emergencies. ![]()
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