Scientist’s travel diaries from 1920s revealed racist attitudes including describing people who ‘relieve themselves in leafy woods’
Chinese internet users have defended Albert Einstein’s recently published travel diaries in which the physicist calls the Chinese “industrious, filthy people.”
Portions of the diaries from his travels in Asia in the 1920s were posted online this week and their content surprised Einstein fans.
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