Chinese defend Einstein`s portrait of their people as `filthy` and `obtuse`
(The Guardian China)

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. Related: Einstein`s travel diaries reveal `shocking` xenophobia Continue reading...