Remembering Chinese railroad workers

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  • @AuthorSamLui
    @AuthorSamLui 4 роки тому +35

    My great grandfather was one of the many, who worked on the railroads. He ended settling in Chicago, unable to reunite with my grandpa.

  • @gabehernandez5332
    @gabehernandez5332 4 роки тому +85

    who else is here from their teachers link?

  • @stevenfong1928
    @stevenfong1928 4 роки тому +35

    My first ancestor came from China to give Chinese medicine to these workers.

    • @jesscolliflower5531
      @jesscolliflower5531 4 роки тому +1

      First ancestor? Like since the beginning of time

    • @stevenfong1928
      @stevenfong1928 4 роки тому +4

      @@jesscolliflower5531 If I said yes you going to ride it like it's bull?

    • @marianodenisvega4323
      @marianodenisvega4323 3 роки тому

      @@jesscolliflower5531 It was the first bacteria XD

  • @369-b2x
    @369-b2x 10 місяців тому +3

    I thank these Chinese citizens for promoting themselves in such a beautiful way.

  • @Joeyblondewolf2
    @Joeyblondewolf2 4 роки тому +30

    There's rumors that my great grandpa was Chinese. That side of my family is a mystery but I would love to find out and learn more on my possible family history.

    • @wr3595
      @wr3595 4 роки тому

      Asian people Mary divide people or Black people their children well looks like white people or Black people not Asian people anymore so their descendent we are always forgot about their forefathers.

    • @mr.rage0964
      @mr.rage0964 4 роки тому

      do ancestory

    • @Splexsychiick
      @Splexsychiick 3 роки тому

      Ansystry and Me. Or some other DNA at home test kit. Visitors old family and start collecting documents like birth certificates. Visit churches and registry offices to help build a family tree. It's a lot of hard work but can be very fun and insightful.

    • @gold6813
      @gold6813 3 роки тому +1

      Your Chinese grandfather may have been kidnapped by the government and forcibly sent back to China without a chance to speak to his family. That’s what happened to the Chinese seamen who maintained the warships in liver pool docks u.k

    • @lot10101
      @lot10101 2 роки тому

      You can track it by using your surname and dialect.
      Not forgetting the numerous clan based organisations based on dialect and surname.
      Good luck and good hunting.

  • @mrquestion8398
    @mrquestion8398 2 роки тому +18

    After they helped build the railroad AMERICA passed the CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT!!

  • @carona_yt_556
    @carona_yt_556 4 роки тому +18

    Talking about My great great grandfather he came to San Francisco building thoughs railroads

    • @Blue-Hoe
      @Blue-Hoe 4 роки тому +2

      he’s a good guy asians in america are the least talked about

    • @jenhaley
      @jenhaley 3 роки тому +1

      @@Blue-Hoe I’m greatful for Chinese Americans who came to this country and did backbreaking labor to build the Union Pacific railroad

  • @ShredST
    @ShredST 9 місяців тому +3

    This is the first reasonable thing I've heard from Gordon Chang.

    • @fargr5926
      @fargr5926 3 місяці тому

      not the Gordon Chang, they are two persons.

  • @melissasaint3283
    @melissasaint3283 4 роки тому +12

    I am an ethnic french-canadian.
    We all grow up eating something we call "pate chinois"
    Which means "a Chinese dish made of minced/mashed ingredients"
    But it is not Chinese at all, it is a slightly North American version of "cottage pie", an English dish-- typically mashed potatoes, corn, ground beef simmered with minced onions, layered together and baked.
    So why do we call it Chinese?!
    Young French Canadian men also were recruited off the farms of Quebec to work on the railroad,
    and the Anglo-saxon managers had cheap English dishes on the menu...
    but they had Chinese railroad-team cooks preparing the food,who modified the recipe to use what was more easily available.
    The French looooved it.
    But for most of them, this was the first time they had ever met an Asian person, and they knew little or nothing about Asian cuisine.
    So, when the French went back home, they brought the recipe back, assuming it was a Chinese dish!
    150 years later, we and our children still call it "pate Chinois" in Canada and the US, and it is one of the official dishes of Quebec,
    an ancestral memory of the time our ancestors worked together bridging a continent 150 years ago.
    The motto of the French Canadians isn't
    "Je me souviens" for nothing.
    We remember!

    • @aquafountain7680
      @aquafountain7680 4 роки тому

      melissa saint nice story I hope we Chinese made life better for y’all

    • @g0714
      @g0714 2 роки тому +1

      Wasn't the "je me souviens" put on car plates and things like the parliament building to commemorate the attempts at the Québécois' sovereignty? I'm just a little bit confused since I was literally told that in school at Brossard. And paté chinois doesn't really mean "minced/mashed ingredients".

    • @l-_-ls
      @l-_-ls 10 місяців тому

      @@g0714 I don’t speak French, but it looks to translate as Chinese mash (like mash a bunch of ingredients together?)

  • @soniyasinha3496
    @soniyasinha3496 5 місяців тому +3

    the world that slavery built....

  • @kj7653
    @kj7653 3 роки тому +9

    I grew up near the Transcontinental Railroad. We learned all about the Chinese workers and their contributions to the building of the railroad. So this video does not accurately reflect what I was taught in school. If anything we learned more about the Chinese contribution than the Irishmen and other workers. We all understood that the photo shoot was just the big, rich bosses, who arrived in time for the celebrations.

    • @Info-qw8vi
      @Info-qw8vi 10 місяців тому

      > we learned more about the Chinese contribution than the Irishmen and other workers.
      Amazing. Are you Chinese, Irish, part or mix of both? A minority of Chinese intermixed with locals during their stay. Irish were closer with Chinese than Anglos/Whites.

  • @ambassador8524
    @ambassador8524 3 роки тому +3

    That must’ve been a bleak existence

  • @MegaLivingIt
    @MegaLivingIt 11 місяців тому +2

    Yes, how about that! Those people are no slouches when it comes to doing huge jobs. (like The Great Wall of China all around China). Good job!🌿

  • @california199_7
    @california199_7 3 роки тому +2

    Can someone tell me during the railroad time we’re there any master kung fu around?

  • @elaztec.aztecca
    @elaztec.aztecca Рік тому +2

    One train returned to San Francisco with 1,200 dead Chinese. It is recorded.

  • @junebug8882
    @junebug8882 11 місяців тому +2

    You.. Chinese power

  • @miraklehardaway6079
    @miraklehardaway6079 4 роки тому +4

    4 page essay I'm only in 5th grade

  • @CD-hc5ds
    @CD-hc5ds 2 роки тому +4

    Much respect for the Chinese people that helped to develop this country. It not only benefited their ancestors but each & every one of us here today. They absolutely should be recognized for this great accomplishment! Not only were they not created but you never heard of them screaming for equality, land or reparations. These are a proud honorable people, they kept their heads down, nose to the grindstone & made something of themselves! How many Chinese do you see that are homeless or on welfare??? There are so many injustices hidden in history that we ALL benefit from today, we need to be thankful to all the people Chinese, Black, Mexican & usually poor Whites that contributed the making today a easier & comfortable place for all of us.

  • @myuploades2967
    @myuploades2967 5 років тому +8

    Many died and injured but I'm pretty sure it was an evolutionary progress and being a part of an industry industrial lime process Exodus through it as many say was rough and was known it wasn't easy and as we see train travel inspired the west coast of Steam Trains being more iconical and be loved by media people news and social standards even Johnny Cash had a train

  • @kharris9359
    @kharris9359 2 місяці тому

    Han Chinese names? How can you distinguish the sound of spoons and forks falling down the stairs?

  • @carnagenon3798
    @carnagenon3798 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you Chinese!

  • @joekerr8334
    @joekerr8334 Рік тому +5

    The anti-Chinese sentiment still persists today.

  • @jamescc2010
    @jamescc2010 3 роки тому +1

    Now China is building world longest high speed trains. Nice!

  • @pedroeusebiotapuy
    @pedroeusebiotapuy Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @muyun9525
    @muyun9525 4 роки тому

    Great mainlanders of East Asia💛

  • @collinhuey2090
    @collinhuey2090 4 роки тому +8

    i want reparations, 50 grand would be great

    • @MsMoons123
      @MsMoons123 3 роки тому +6

      Reparations? They were PAID workers. They CHOSE to come here. I just had my countertops replaced with all marble countertops and a brand new sink. I paid chinese workers thousand of dollars to install them. Those are my countertops. I came up with the need and i coughed up the money. They willingly did the work. and thats it. They have no claim to my kitchen. They simply did a job that I paid them to do and that they wanted to do. Same thing for the railroad.

    • @timsim1940
      @timsim1940 3 роки тому +4

      @@MsMoons123 well said. He sounds like a liberal.

    • @realnapster1522
      @realnapster1522 3 роки тому

      @@MsMoons123 they were laid not enough. And lot of people died. They were exploited.

    • @l-_-ls
      @l-_-ls 10 місяців тому

      @@realnapster1522that’s right! They weren’t laid enough. 😂
      But seriously, aside from getting like 30% less pay, gov wouldn’t allow the women to come for fear of establishing families or doing prostituzin.

  • @junebug8882
    @junebug8882 11 місяців тому +4

    What about the Chinese recipes?.. and where is the Black people you know they made 100% free labor

  • @alecgurney9305
    @alecgurney9305 2 роки тому

    ♥️♥️♥️

  • @betteryoubetter
    @betteryoubetter 3 роки тому +2

    Tibet. Thank you

  • @MarkisCouch_1WhatJustHappened
    @MarkisCouch_1WhatJustHappened 2 роки тому

    Interesting!

  • @doubleutee8867
    @doubleutee8867 2 роки тому +4

    Many married Black American women due to anti-miscegenation laws, and the lack of Chinese women.

    • @leroyjwah1975
      @leroyjwah1975 2 роки тому +2

      Chinese men definitely mixed a lot for that purpose. I hear today they do that in Ethiopia too

    • @doubleutee8867
      @doubleutee8867 2 роки тому

      @@leroyjwah1975 And other parts of Africa too.

    • @leroyjwah1975
      @leroyjwah1975 2 роки тому

      @@doubleutee8867 interesting I did not know

    • @Embargoman
      @Embargoman 2 роки тому

      Sooner or later Japan will rival Venezuela for Miss Universe titles when African migrants goes to Japan.

    • @Info-qw8vi
      @Info-qw8vi 10 місяців тому +2

      @@leroyjwah1975 Yes, many famous African American celebrities have partial Cantonese/Chinese ancestry. There are more officially recorded marriages with "Whites" though. e.g. after working in New Orleans (Bourbon Street used to be a Chinatown).

  • @patrickbly4170
    @patrickbly4170 Рік тому

    What's so funny/ shameful about Hard work , Honesty , and prejudice ?

  • @Otta4Fur
    @Otta4Fur 2 роки тому +2

    Important please answer!
    Initially, How were Chinese railroad workers treated after the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?

    • @mrquestion8398
      @mrquestion8398 2 роки тому +4

      THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT!!!! THATS HOW

    • @blockraven22
      @blockraven22 Рік тому +1

      A lot of them wanted to stick around the towns near the railroad tracks but were kicked out. There were also the burning of China Towns. According to Roland Hsu- the director of research of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.

    • @Info-qw8vi
      @Info-qw8vi 10 місяців тому

      I don't know the answer, but many went to Mexico, Cuba, and others continued working for the Railway company in Minnesota and New Orleans, and many became farm workers for the Cotton and Tobacco plantations in New Orleans and the South. But it also doesn't really matter how they were treated as the goal for the majority wasn't to stay in the West permanently but to rebuild their old villages/kingdom/dynasty in China. Often they had wives and families waiting back home.

    • @Otta4Fur
      @Otta4Fur 10 місяців тому

      @@Info-qw8vi i needed this a year ago

  • @wanlingtain5262
    @wanlingtain5262 Місяць тому

    A dark history we should remember

  • @jacintochua6885
    @jacintochua6885 22 дні тому

    Taking their jobs ? Same charges today. Many Chinese were nurdered in west coast states, such as
    Colorado.

  • @BikorimanaYonadabu
    @BikorimanaYonadabu 8 місяців тому +1

    RBA

  • @jglg7238
    @jglg7238 9 місяців тому

    europe, u,s amurica, created "Yellow Peril"

  • @floridamanmick1372
    @floridamanmick1372 4 роки тому +3

    Hey guys 26 is half of 40

    • @WebheadReborn
      @WebheadReborn 4 роки тому +3

      haha train go choo choo

    • @elmosworld8994
      @elmosworld8994 3 роки тому

      Hey guys, 26 dollars per month is still significantly less than 40! White supremacy am I right? Haha, racists go choo choo!

  • @agermason7890
    @agermason7890 2 роки тому

    The Japanese in Sacramento, California are the are the Original People of the Conn Rail Road! The Kenya, Sudanese, and South East Asian, Malaysian , and Australia People's are the Indigenous People of that Land.

  • @leejunkithailand
    @leejunkithailand 4 роки тому +2

    Red dead redemption 2

  • @tinoruiz8802
    @tinoruiz8802 4 роки тому +2

    Xenophobia all the way around.

  • @cananada7143
    @cananada7143 4 роки тому +1

    online school AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @thebudapestgambler8832
    @thebudapestgambler8832 2 роки тому

    Thank you Anthony Jeselnik for the history lesson!

  • @myuploades2967
    @myuploades2967 5 років тому +3

    How about the Japanese accent FEMA camps that happened in Salinas Valley and other places around the world where people were transported in buses two camps would these cans be Marina

    • @MsMoons123
      @MsMoons123 3 роки тому +2

      Japanese FEMA camps? Are you forgetting that the Japanese have slave camps in OSAKA japan? In those camps they worked filipino, american, chinese, and australian workers TO DEATH. They also conducted barbaric experiments on their prisoners. They injected them with chemicals and poisons and did autopsies on them while they were still alive. So dont conveniently forget that both sides HAVE BLAME.

  • @sayilu
    @sayilu 3 роки тому

    Nowadays, in office politics, we call it claiming credits.

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus 4 роки тому

    Hate😢😢😢😢

  • @myuploades2967
    @myuploades2967 5 років тому +1

    Are Chinese descended Americans Native Americans just like the natives Indians Pocahontas

    • @temuujinable
      @temuujinable 4 роки тому +2

      Not chinese. Siberians asians are descendants of natives

  • @ericafisette160
    @ericafisette160 2 роки тому

    We win BIIIIIIIG! 🏆🏆✝️✝️

    • @jye7027
      @jye7027 2 роки тому +2

      who is "we" ? what is the cross for ?