First up, some co-workers and I were eating Chinese food, and another person walked into the room and said, "It smells like a sweatshop in here." Is that racist?
Second, how soon can you take a baby safely out in public? This past Friday, someone brought in their 5 day old child to our card shop during FNM and played games for a couple hours. The baby didn't cry, buy I was very concerned.
1) I vote yes. And also "uninformed" as sweatshops exist worldwide, including in the US.
2) Babies don't do much and can not do much pretty much anywhere. However, parents are instructed to call their doctor if there is illness in a baby less than 3 months old - which my wife and I interpreted to mean that it would be prudent to be extra cautious during those first 3 months. Lots of hand washing, no exposure to anyone we knew to be sick, etc.
1) Was the comment in response to seeing the Chinese food? If "yes" then I would say "yes- the comment was intended to be racist but really just came across as ignorant."
2) If not your baby, not your businesss
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Most people would say yes but it doesn't bother me. probably the kind of thing you'd want to avoid saying without knowing everyone's personality a bit.
As far as I know, very soon as long as you're careful about it and ready to leave pretty much anywhere you take them at a moment's notice. There's a reason they don't make you keep them at the hospital for that long. I'd probably be more cautious than those people around influenza season, myself.
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First up, some co-workers and I were eating Chinese food, and another person walked into the room and said, "It smells like a sweatshop in here." Is that racist?
Second, how soon can you take a baby safely out in public? This past Friday, someone brought in their 5 day old child to our card shop during FNM and played games for a couple hours. The baby didn't cry, buy I was very concerned.
1) Depends. Did he say this because he smelled chinese food?
Obviously, chinese food does not smell like sweat or machine oil, which is what sweatshops smell like (that's even assuming he knows what a sweatshop smells like; I grew up cleaning sewing machines in our own "sweatshop"). If he was saying that in response to smelling chinese/food, then in his mind chinese=sweatshop, and his comment was made in an attempt to be funny. Whether or not it is funny depends on the individuals listening, but yeah, it was racist.
2) Your LGS must be really rough if you're very concerned with the safety of an infant. There shouldn't really be a problem in most places. They're not _that_ fragile, and despite the jokes, your LGS is going to be more hygienic than a few maternity wards/hospital.
#1: Yes, that's racist, if the implication was really that it smelled like a sweatshop because of the chinese food and not because it smelled like sweat.
#2: The baby will be fine. In some places, that baby would already be strapped to its mother's back while she does her work.
1.) Definitely racist. Even if it had nothing to do with Chinese food. If you even feel like you need to ask if something is racist, it invariably is. 100% of the time. Trust that little voice.
1) Did they know that it was chinese food before the comment? Then no, not racist. If yes, racist. If no (again) still in extremely poor taste and I personally lose respect for people like that. I work as a massage therapist where some of my co-workers eat some very, how shall we say, interesting things, but I'm not boisterous about it like some of the others. People gotta eat.
2) When the baby becomes a problem, thats when its a problem (is it the best idea, maybe not). I live in the deep south, where smoking while pregnant seems to be a past time so I've had lots of practice in shutting my mouth and moving on.
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Second, how soon can you take a baby safely out in public? This past Friday, someone brought in their 5 day old child to our card shop during FNM and played games for a couple hours. The baby didn't cry, buy I was very concerned.
2) Babies don't do much and can not do much pretty much anywhere. However, parents are instructed to call their doctor if there is illness in a baby less than 3 months old - which my wife and I interpreted to mean that it would be prudent to be extra cautious during those first 3 months. Lots of hand washing, no exposure to anyone we knew to be sick, etc.
2) If not your baby, not your businesss
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As far as I know, very soon as long as you're careful about it and ready to leave pretty much anywhere you take them at a moment's notice. There's a reason they don't make you keep them at the hospital for that long. I'd probably be more cautious than those people around influenza season, myself.
1) Depends. Did he say this because he smelled chinese food?
Obviously, chinese food does not smell like sweat or machine oil, which is what sweatshops smell like (that's even assuming he knows what a sweatshop smells like; I grew up cleaning sewing machines in our own "sweatshop"). If he was saying that in response to smelling chinese/food, then in his mind chinese=sweatshop, and his comment was made in an attempt to be funny. Whether or not it is funny depends on the individuals listening, but yeah, it was racist.
2) Your LGS must be really rough if you're very concerned with the safety of an infant. There shouldn't really be a problem in most places. They're not _that_ fragile, and despite the jokes, your LGS is going to be more hygienic than a few maternity wards/hospital.
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2. Its in poor taste to bring an infant that young to an LGS but other than that its fine if the baby isn't crying profusely.
#1: Yes, that's racist, if the implication was really that it smelled like a sweatshop because of the chinese food and not because it smelled like sweat.
#2: The baby will be fine. In some places, that baby would already be strapped to its mother's back while she does her work.
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2.) This seems like a bad idea too.
2) When the baby becomes a problem, thats when its a problem (is it the best idea, maybe not). I live in the deep south, where smoking while pregnant seems to be a past time so I've had lots of practice in shutting my mouth and moving on.