What is Einstein’s evaluation of the Chinese?

Einstein is a famous physicist, and is also known as the most powerful physicist after Galileo and Newton. He also achieved great achievements in his life. Later, he founded The theory of relativity became world-famous and he has been admired by many ever since. In 2018, "Einstein's Travels: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922-1923" was published.

This book is mainly compiled and published based on Einstein’s diary of traveling in various countries in Asia and Europe in the last century. In 1922, Einstein was threatened with murder. In order to escape, he traveled to China, Ceylon, Japan and other countries. He gave lectures while traveling and wrote down what he saw and heard in his diary. This book accurately records what Einstein saw and heard during his travels in Asia, and of course it also contains a very strong color of subjectivism. The evaluation of the Chinese people at that time in the book is obviously low.

He described it like this: industrious, dirty, and slow to respond. He said that Chinese people do not sit on stools when eating, just like Europeans squatting when going to the toilet in the forest. The child is also listless and unresponsive. It is said that the Chinese work like horses and that we are a nation like a flock of sheep, but we do not feel pain. We are more like machines and not like human beings at all. He said that in his opinion, there was no difference between Chinese women and men, and he could not understand the charm of Chinese women. Even such women could attract a large number of Chinese men to reproduce.

And he also said that if the Chinese replaced other ethnic groups, then he would express great regret, saying that the Chinese cannot think logically when teaching, and they can be said to have no talent in this regard. In addition to the discrimination against the Chinese, he is also very dissatisfied with the Indians, saying that India is an inferior nation. However, his description of Japan was very friendly, saying that Japanese people are very simple and decent, and full of charm. There is a pure soul here that is not found elsewhere. He said that people will definitely like this country after coming to it.

After his diary was widely circulated, it aroused serious criticism from the Western media. This diary also showed people his hateful side. Einstein was persecuted by the German Nazis many times, and he also condemned racism in public. In order to protect the Jews who were discriminated against by the Germans, he forgot about the people he discriminated against.