When you codify that racism, then yes, it’s still racist. “chinese whispers” is an insult to all chinese. So, yeah, it’s racist. Just use “telephone” instead, without the added racial insult added.Also, I’ve only ever heard “hokey pokey”.rom what you see, you can be fairly sure even if “Chinese Whisper” wasn’t meant to be racist, most of us Chinese do take it as it is. It is safe to say that whatever phrases that contains any possibility for it being racist is best left unspoken/ unused.