Original sentence: " Several hundred years later, European explorers had the same impressions.All of these made him marvel when he compared the Chinese to what he saw in Europe and the Middle East.But more often, they were shocked by the near nakedness of the people, their poor sanitary habits, simple houses, and small villages.Even a postal system existed.Even though he was an Italian, proud of his people and well aware of the greatness of Ancient Rome, Marco Polo wrote: "Surely there is no more intelligent race on earth than the Chinese.However, Rushton points out that the whites who explored China were just as racist as those who explored Africa, but their descriptions were different from what they and the Arabs had written about Africans.Some claimed Blacks had the nature "of wild animals... most of them go naked... the child does not know his father, and they eat people.The first Muslim explorers in East Africa wrote that they were shocked by the nudity, paganism, cannibalism, and poverty of the natives.They found no wheels for making pots, grinding corn, or for transport, no farm animals, no writing, no money, and no numbering systems.They praised some tribes for making fine pottery, forging iron, carving wooden art, and making musical instruments.They wrote that Africans seemed to have a very low intelligence and few words to express complex thoughts.When Marco Polo arrived in China in 1275 from his native Italy he found that the Chinese had well built roads, bridges, cities connected by canals, census takers, markets, standardized weights and measures, and not only coins, but paper money as well