Remembering Chinese railroad workers

150 years after the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad, a local Chicago Museum highlights Chinese workers' contributions.
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[@AuthorSamLui]

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]

who else is here from their teachers link?

[@kennysbusdrawings]

Me

[@pixelatorjta]

Same

[@cagsie3958]

I'm here after watching "Hell On Wheels".

[@ooreho]

same

[@miraklehardaway6079]

me

[@stevenfong1928]

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

[@jesscolliflower5531]

First ancestor? Like since the beginning of time

[@stevenfong1928]

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

[@marianodenisvega4323]

@@jesscolliflower5531 It was the first bacteria XD

[@user-pd2rq5oj2x]

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

[@ShredST]

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

[@mrquestion8398]

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

[@carona_yt_556]

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

[@lufa7886]

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

[@jenhaley]

@@lufa7886 I’m greatful for Chinese Americans who came to this country and did backbreaking labor to build the Union Pacific railroad

[@Joeyblondewolf2]

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]

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]

do ancestory

[@Splexsychiick]

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]

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]

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.

[@joekerr8334]

The anti-Chinese sentiment still persists today.

[@melissasaint3283]

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]

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

[@g0714]

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]

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

[@collinhuey2090]

i want reparations, 50 grand would be great

[@MsMoons123]

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]

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

[@realnapster1522]

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

[@l-_-ls]

@@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.

[@ambassador8524]

That must’ve been a bleak existence

[@CD-hc5ds]

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.

[@california199_7]

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

[@miraklehardaway6079]

4 page essay I'm only in 5th grade

[@carnagenon3798]

Thank you Chinese!

[@myuploades2967]

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

[@junebug8882]

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

[@kj7653]

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]

> 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.

[@soniyasinha3496]

the world that slavery built....

[@elaztec.aztecca]

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

[@junebug8882]

You.. Chinese power

[@muyun9525]

Great mainlanders of East Asia💛

[@jamescc2010]

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

[@betteryoubetter]

Tibet. Thank you

[@MegaLivingIt]

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!🌿

[@alecgurney9305]

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[@pedroeusebiotapuy]

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[@MarkisCouch_1WhatJustHappened]

Interesting!

[@patrickbly4170]

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

[@doubleutee8867]

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

[@leroyjwah1975]

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

[@doubleutee8867]

@@leroyjwah1975 And other parts of Africa too.

[@leroyjwah1975]

@@doubleutee8867 interesting I did not know

[@Embargoman]

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

[@Info-qw8vi]

@@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).

[@BikorimanaYonadabu]

RBA

[@floridamanmick1372]

Hey guys 26 is half of 40

[@WebheadReborn]

haha train go choo choo

[@elmosworld8994]

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

[@myuploades2967]

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]

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.

[@leejunkithailand]

Red dead redemption 2

[@Otta4Fur]

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

[@mrquestion8398]

THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT!!!! THATS HOW

[@blockraven22]

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]

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]

@@Info-qw8vi i needed this a year ago

[@cananada7143]

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[@agermason7890]

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.

[@jglg7238]

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

[@tinoruiz8802]

Xenophobia all the way around.

[@thebudapestgambler8832]

Thank you Anthony Jeselnik for the history lesson!

[@sayilu]

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

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

Hate😢😢😢😢

[@myuploades2967]

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

[@temuujinable]

Not chinese. Siberians asians are descendants of natives

[@ericafisette160]

We win BIIIIIIIG! 🏆🏆✝️✝️

[@jye7027]

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