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The German city of Bremen has issued a ban on the use of gestures teachers use to let students know they are being silenced, on the grounds that it resembles Turkey's far-right symbol of the “gray wolf.”
The hand sign has been kind of calming in German education until now, when the teacher showed it, signaling to the children that it was time to shut up and pay attention.
The 'silent gorilla' gesture used in the classroom to quiet down students has been banned in a northern German city as it closely resembles a far-right Turkish gesture. The 'silent gorilla' gesture is usually used by teachers when they want the wandering students to pay attention to the lesson. The 'wolf handshake' gesture is associated with the Grey Wolves, a hardline Islamist group with around 20,000 members. The Grey Wolves have been accused …
A German city becomes the first to issue a total ban on the use of a hand gesture encouraging silence in class due to its similarity with a far-right Turkish gesture. The 'silent rabbit' gesture - in which the hand is positioned to resemble a rabbit with straight ears (little finger and index) and with its mouth closed (middle fingers pressing on the ring finger) - has long been considered a useful teaching tool by educators in Germany and other…
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