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Indians, Einstein seemed to have believed, were "biologically inferior".
Einstein, the editor writes, came across Indians in Colombo during his Far East voyage and mentioned their existence by referring to their "primitive lives".
"[Einstein] also believes that 'the climate prevents them from thinking backward or forward by more than a quarter of an hour', an attitude that reveals both Einstein's belief in geographical determinism and in the Indians' alleged intellectual inferiority," Rosenkranz writes.
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Einstein, the editor writes, came across Indians in Colombo during his Far East voyage and mentioned their existence by referring to their "primitive lives".
"[Einstein] also believes that 'the climate prevents them from thinking backward or forward by more than a quarter of an hour', an attitude that reveals both Einstein's belief in geographical determinism and in the Indians' alleged intellectual inferiority," Rosenkranz writes.
Did Einstein believe Indians were stupid? His diaries suggest so
Indians, Einstein seemed to have believed, were "biologically inferior" and were hampered by the subcontinent's climate that "prevented them from thinking backward or forward by more than a quarter of an hour."