Screw Titanic . For white people of their day, this was analogous to landing on the moon. Unlike most astronauts, however, these guys had every reason to expect their quest would end in torture, mutilation and death. It also has a nicely uncolonialist bent to it, without heavy messages. Burton had an abiding interest in the cultures of the people he met, and it carries over into the film without too much cartoonishness.
Folks is folks the whole world round.
Titanic my eye.