Research shows that six Chinese passengers survived when the Titanic sank in April 1912. Their stories have long been excluded from accounts of that historic day. NBC News’ Kathy Park reports on a new documentary that attempts to rewrite that century-old injustice.
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#Titanic #History #Documentary
It’s sad that the Titanic will soon be gone.
@acgillespiebro 💀
It’s been gone it was a poorly designed ship. I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did 🚢
@William Royer it’s not gone. You can only say it was a poor design now because you know what happened.
@William Royer It is already sunk. In the near future it will also be dissolved and corroded beyond recognition. At that time, it will be even more gone than it is now.
The last survivor died a few years ago, she was a baby when the ship sank.
Crazy that NBC news interviews a slow talking white guy
Do you think you would understand a Chinese lol
“SUM TING WONG!!!” – CHINESE ON THE TITANIC
That joke has already been used for the Asiana Airlines crash.
@shad0wCh8ser NO TING FUNNY
Not original and overused
BANG DING OW
@weed dinosaur all the black people were like “WHO TURNT OFF DA LIGHTS????”
We need the fabricio story 6 hours of back story was recorded 💚
I didn’t understand why james cameron removed the scene of the Chinese man getting rescued
The movie was long enough and the scene was unnecessary
😂😂 u didnt know non caucasians r the first to go in hollywood ?
Because whites only care about whites. Isn’t that obvious?
Because he’s racist
Re my other post. Robert Ballard and James Cameron have been here in Halifax, NS.
Doing research and production and they have been to the graveyards here with the Titanic victims.
rats seem to survive a sinking ship
typical though..
the rich guys who opposed the Federal reserve plan went down with that ‘titanic’ (and switch with olympic) farce..
Nonsense. As Reuters’ investigation demonstrated :-
‘A widely-shared meme has taken several facts about the Titanic out of context to make unsubstantiated claims that imply the ship’s sinking was a deliberate act. This is not true – experts widely agree the sinking of the Titanic was an accident.
The meme was posted to Facebook and has been shared many times.
It consists of two images: one of the ship and a second of American financier John Pierpoint (J.P.) Morgan. These sit alongside a wall of text that suggests Morgan had motive to sink the Titanic because it was hosting three powerful people who opposed his idea for a centralised banking system, ie: the U.S. Federal Reserve.
“DID YOU KNOW? The man who funded the building of the titanic, J. P. Morgan, cancelled his long-awaited journey just hours before its proposed departure,” the meme reads. “3 of the wealthiest men on earth, whom (sic) were against the creation of the federal reserve bank, happened to be invited aboard for its maiden voyage (John Aster, Isador Strauss & Benjamin Guggenheim).
“It then headed full speed into a known iceberg-field, with less than half the required lifeboats, no red signal flares, no Rothschild or Rockefeller on board, and sank to the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean. Less than a year later, now that the wealthy opposition was out of the way, the federal reserve was created and USA was turned into an incorporated business, with its own business ID number, ’28 U.S.C. 3002 15.”
J.P MORGAN CLAIMS
While it is true that J.P. Morgan owned the Titanic and did not sail on its doomed maiden voyage, there is no evidence to suggest he deliberately missed the trip because he knew the ship would sink. Historians have debated several reasons for Morgan to cancel his trip, but none is related to the Federal Reserve.
“I’ve never been able to find an authoritative 1912 source explaining the exact reason why J. P. Morgan cancelled his passage on the Titanic, but he definitely didn’t do so mere ‘hours’ before the ship’s departure,” Titanic expert George Behe said in an email to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Don Lynch, a historian at the Titanic Historical Society (THS), said: “One of J.P. Morgan’s biographers said that France was changing its laws to prevent Americans from exporting art treasures from that country, so Morgan went to Paris to oversee getting his purchases out of the country before the new laws went into effect.”
Also from THS, advisory board member Ray Lepien, said that as well as the art treasures theory, “the ‘official’ explanation was that he (Morgan) fell ill and wanted to take the ‘cure’ at a spa in France with his mistress.” Lepien added: “It could have been both reasons.”
STRAUS, ASTOR AND GUGGENHEIM’S OPINIONS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE PROPOSAL
While it is also true that Isidor Straus, Macy’s Department store owner; John Jacob Astor, a property tycoon, and Benjamin Guggenheim, a mining boss, died in the 1912 disaster, there is no evidence to suggest they were the target of deliberate sabotage. There is also no evidence that these three men were against Morgan’s centralised banking ideas.
Firstly, Titanic’s maiden voyage had attracted many prominent names, and was dubbed the “Millionaire’s Special” as a result.
Secondly, George Behe told Reuters he was unable to find any documents in his 45 years of researching the Titanic that proved the three men opposed the Federal Reserve. In fact, a Washington Post investigation found that while Astor and Guggenheim did not take a public stance on the matter, Straus reportedly spoke in favour of the proposal.
I’m still alive if you want to scooch over sweetie (6)
His dad must have been born in the late 1800’s. If that is correct when was his son born? A very old dad if correct.
Maybe he was adopted.
@Ila Hilda Sissac good point.
I thought maybe his grand pappi??
6 Chinese and 1 Japanese
Yep! The grandfather of “Harry” Hosono, the last surviving member of Yellow Magic Orchestra.
The grandfather was a top man in the Japanese Ministry of Transportation and studied the railroads in Russia.
No one cares about Chinese
CGTN have excellent documentaries
Then go there and stay there.
I have no idea why the US government allows that stinking anti American propaganda pos Chinese media all over YouTube and other American social sites.
My father was alive when the Titanic sank in 1912. And victims of the Titanic are in the cemeteries here in Halifax, NS.
The Catholics are in Mount Olivet. Near the Halifax Shopping Center. If you turn your back on the Titanic enclosure there,
you will be facing the grave of MY ancestors. My grandparents, my namesake granduncle and my aunt. Among others.
I knew there were Chinese aboard the Titanic, and the Japanese survivor was the grandfather of Harry Hosono.
The last surviving member of Yellow Magic Orchestra after his bandmates died earlier this year. RIP Ryuchi Sakamoto.
I saw one video which highlighted the Japanese guy was shamed in his country by surviving which is sad and pathetic.
@Ila Hilda Sissac Indeed. He was not seen as “heroic” for having gotten into the lifeboat.
But he did the right thing. If he had not, his grandson would not have made innovative music.
@Michael R Murphy I am sure the music his grandson would make was the only thing on his mind in 1912.
@Michael R Murphy A Dishonor by being a survivor. Strange indeed. I don’t see anything in honorable drowning .
I want to see that.
So what? Were their survivings even pure and innocent out of luck??? Orrr???? Pretending they’re women and children or stole others’ life jackets???
They were probably all racists, right NBC?
What about the two black disabled female-to-male drag queens?? Where are their stories, you bigots?? I’m so offended!
Racism and white supremacy, thats why you’ve never heard of the Chinese passengers. Plain and simple.
There a biracial Black French family as well. I read the fiction book based on their story in 2015.
How can French be black ?
@Luis Fernandoa black couple moves to Frace and has children there
Didn’t know the chinese was already discriminated even back then.
You gotta dive into some Chinese-American history. A lot of the liberties we have are attributed to the Chinese challenging discriminations in court.
what they don’t say in the video is some of the survivors were still kicked out the us even after the sinking only because racisms from the chinese exclusion act
Geez 🤔 – who is surprised that the Chinese is once again marginalized in history?
How are a tiny number of individuals being ‘marginalised?’ They were on the margins where Titanic was concerned in any case.
Wow, they’re even trying to make the Titanic woke. This world is doomed.
It sure is with creeps like you around!
方荣山？
Of course, they were forgotten, they’re not white.
Id rather listen to those survivors than the ones who were well documented.
How do you mean that because it kind of comes off wrong.
Whites only care about white stories…
Uvalde is a good example
@weed dinosaur facts
That is what i call Awsome…touched heart ❤..
Chinese spy’s
Why do everything forced through the lens of race.? What a sick world we live in.
6/8 survived, that tells you how rich they are back in the days….
Awesome. Can’t wait to see this documentary. Learned about the Asian and African people from the titanic during the Honor and Glory annual memorial live stream they have ever year. I have watched every documentary I could and never heard about it till then, or maybe it was Top 5’s. One or the other. Both excellent channels for those interested. They are both a wealth of information.
Hello
Chinese guy being romantic or heroic? Hollywood will replace it with a white guy for sure. Fast and Furious was about white boys.
Hollywood stopped portraying ‘white boys’ as heroes years ago.
A “possible descendant”. Sorry, not credible!
Throughout James Cameron’s Titanic, there are scenes where there’s Chinese man in the background & there’s a deleted scene where he gets rescued by Lifeboat 14.
its neeeeew
So the American used Chinese for labor and then throw us away when we are no longer needed ?
So the guy was born in 1912? He should be dead or old as balls!
O F COURSE. 😢