A new documentary, “The Six,” highlights the lives of the six Chinese survivors aboard the Titanic, what happened to them and why they’ve been overlooked all these years. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor discusses how the filmmakers exposed the racism and xenophobic policies in the US, Canada and UK that changed those Chinese survivors’ lives forever.
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