Titanic to tell us what
April 15 is the 100 anniversary of the wreck of the Titanic Ice. Western media has long been in full swing variety of Memorial. According to the shooting of the vie Titanic, written literature, do not know the updated version. Titanic has become a part of the modern human memory.
This tragedy, brought about not just sad, it is force. Sudden disaster and confusion, the men a chance to survive first give the weak. A result, the survival rate of women and children is much higher than men. The heroic band, always calm in the wreck process played. The human glory has been engraved in our minds with the film. Recently, a number of sporadic touching story continue to emerge. A Yale graduate, his wife and children sent to the lifeboat, his only one life jacket, as well as the one followed by the servant. His life jacket to his servants. The results of the servant of the survivors, he is killed. The two women of the Boston area, take the Titanic to travel with. Life and death, single, who on the lifeboat of the opportunity to give than their older friends, the reason is very simple: “You are the mother, children and families.” Eventually she was killed, friends, survivors … these stories moving, even many people are starting to nostalgia for the “golden age” Daihatsu World Wind ancient sigh: We have met the same disaster, as performance will be like the passengers on the Titanic?
However, the more we examine carefully, the more we feel a little cold. Titanic is more like a symbol of the era of Western industrial society. When the Westerners, as the joy of the passengers on the Titanic ルイ・ヴィトン モノグラム アジェンダ ビューロー NM R20100 レディース 財布, did not know that they have apocalyptic: the history of mankind’s first time modern Holocaust (World War I), only two years to begin. The fruits of the Industrial Revolution the West has been carried away by the mind, and feel capable of anything to conquer. As an unprecedented giant luxury liner, Titanic, just embodies such arrogance: the whole world is obsessed with her voyage, never thought of this modern masterpiece also may be an accident. Not only the ship’s lifeboats went through the motions, an insufficient number of lifeboat drills before the accident have been canceled. And even should not have enough lifeboats, most utilized, passenger capacity is far below the design standards. Of course, we do not forget, it is the most serious divide between rich and poor times. The brilliant results of the Industrial Revolution, the rich people more arrogant, increasingly feel that they are “God’s chosen people”.
So, regardless of the film, the story of how the literature and moving, can not stop those colder than the Ice data. Titanic First Class passengers survived was 63%, second class 43%, 25% steerage. Shameless acts of some of the rich, it is appalling. Unilaterally rejected the views of designers and abatement lifeboat number of director, the first on the lifeboats away. A wealthy bribed the sailor, bypassing the Ladies first principle and his wife jumped into a lifeboat together. What is more, they went up only 56 passengers on the lifeboat, loaded with more than forty. He ordered the sailors hastened to draw away, the sooner the better. Afterwards, someone asked: Along the way, taking advantage of the empty lifeboat, looking at struggling in the water people, you think you want to save them. He is peace of mind to say: “Never. Important thing is” out of the woods. “The couple survived, lingerie boutiques in New York, the name of the signs of the Titanic survivors to win sympathy, and fortunes. Needless to say, after rescue workers arrived at the scene of the deceased is also rich and the poor do not. When they saw the sea floating bodies is the appearance of workers to assume its natural “burial at sea”. To see well-dressed rich, immediately salvage. Of course, we should keep in mind, then do not have a credit card, carry cash. The rich pocket of the body is not only a lot of cash, and the hand wearing a diamond ring. Although we are all dead, or a different value.
Titanic shows us a very different 100 years ago the West. Lends nostalgia, some people will be glad that he was born a hundred years. Whether we stand, and evaluation time, or quite practical significance to today’s standards. Titanic represents the end of the “Gilded Age”. Then dominate the world is rich value “: the success and status of people in this world is a natural reflection of the character, virtue. Use the language of the Puritan ethic that wealth actually prove that he is “God’s chosen people”. Convinced of the legitimacy of wealth, the poor have a condescending arrogance. “De parade” since the Victorian era in high-yield class brought advertised, quite the gentleman with the wind, small Renzhi De grass “means.
This set of moral principles and ethical norms, not just the greedy packing. In fact, the gentleman demeanor on the Titanic from the figures be confirmed. British passengers survived the lowest rate of male passengers of various countries, “English gentleman” is not a myth. Although the survival rate there are great differences between rich and poor , but the mortality of children and women less than men. Steerage of the child mortality rate as high as 66%, the third-class women’s mortality rate was 54%; However, the mortality rate of first-class men, while the lowest in men has reached 67%, higher than any class of women and children. Visible pocketing gentleman wealthy are full of money, there are many still abide by the rules advertised.
However, the Titanic’s story also reveals the moral and ethical constraints on human behavior has a great sex, social, or should not operate on the basis of the assumptions the best of human nature. Gentleman alone, can not stop many people in life and death, opportunistic, free-riding. In a healthy society, the German operation, conduct and ability is superb, success and status is to be expected. Community that they should report to the most well-intentioned expectations. In how to get them to fulfill their social responsibility, however, just rely on the expectations of these well-intentioned is not enough. Have to rely on the necessary laws and regulations. Of course, we believe that when the society of the wealthy class in order to thin tax, and many rich people will stay in the hands of money for charity. But, as we have seen on the Titanic, not all the rich will be the case. A few black sheep can lead to great social injustice. Titanic disaster happen again today, we can hardly imagine that there are so notorious rich and poor discrimination in the rescue process. This is not just that everyone’s moral standards have changed, but also the legal system is no longer tolerate such a thing happen. Control the world of 100 years, we have reason to feel one o’clock relieved joy: after all, human progress, regardless of the pace of how small.
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