Filthy Men of Asia

Einstein's travel diaries reveal shocking truth about Chinese

RT

A wax model of mathematician Albert Einstein at the Madame Tussaud's in Shanghai. 

Albert Einstein's recently published travel diaries unveil his harsh views on the Chinese.
Published by Princeton University Press, the diaries date back to 1920s, the time when the famous Austrian physicist was extensively traveling with his wife Elsa.

In late 1922 they embarked on a five-and-a-half-month journey to the Far East and the Middle East. They traveled to Singapore, China, Japan, and briefly sojourned in Palestine before concluding the whirlwind tour in Spain.
In manuscripts, he apparently never intended to publish, Einstein shared his travel impressions about art, politics, science, philosophy and ultimately, racial equality. 

The Nobel Prize laureate wrote down thoughts on racial diversity, insisting that some races not only could not equate to others, but were inferior to them.
He described the Chinese as “industrious, filthy, obtuse” and “a peculiar herd-like nation,” that, according to Einstein, posed threat to other nations. 

“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races,” he wrote. 

“For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
Born in Germany and of Jewish descent, Einstein condemned both the rise of the German National Socialist Party, and later all forms of racism.

In 1946, during his speech at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, focused on fighting racism, he claimed that being a Jew himself he could “understand and empathize with how black people feel as victims of discrimination”.
Ze’ev Rosenkranz, the senior editor of the published diaries, told the Guardian that Einstein’s diary entries on the intellectual inferiority of the Chinese, stemming from their biological background “are definitely not understated and can be viewed as racist.”