Was Albert Einstein Secretly Racist?

Albert Einstein’s private travel logs from the 1920s have been  translated into English. They reveal that the champion of civil rights had a xenophobic and racist attitude to people he met while travelling in Asia.

Einstein wrote that the “Chinese don’t 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.”

“It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races.”  “For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”

“I noticed how little difference there is between men and women; I don’t understand what kind of fatal attraction Chinese women possess which enthrals the corresponding men to such an extent that they are incapable of defending themselves against the formidable blessing of offspring.”