The publication of Albert Einstein\u2019s private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icon\u2019s racist attitudes to the people he met on his travels, particularly the Chinese.<\/p>\n

Written between October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once described racism as \u201ca disease of white people\u201d describes the \u201cindustrious, filthy, obtuse people\u201d he observes. He notes how the \u201cChinese don\u2019t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.\u201d After earlier writing of the \u201cabundance of offspring\u201d and the \u201cfecundity\u201d of the Chinese, he goes on to say: \u201cIt would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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