> The media has focused on several racist comments, including Einstein calling the Chinese an “industrious, filthy, obtuse people” and "often more like automatons than people.” He wrote that China is a “peculiar herd-like nation" and that “It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.”
> In contrast, he wrote that the Japanese were "pure souls" who are "unostentatious, decent, altogether very appealing."
> In contrast, he wrote that the Japanese were "pure souls" who are "unostentatious, decent, altogether very appealing."
He gave a physics lecture to Lincoln students and also gave a speech in which he repeated his observation that racism is “a disease of white people.” He added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.”