I actually had to drag a friend of mine through a conversation where he asserted, unironically, that British were not white. That they were, in fact, brown. That a Brit was darker than most Mexicans. And I had to kind of gingerly walk him around the idea that such migration didn't happen naturally, and that even with the mass migration he was looking at, that still wasn't accurate outside of the major cities.
I actually had to drag a friend of mine through a conversation where he asserted, unironically, that British were not white. That they were, in fact, brown. That a Brit was darker than most Mexicans. And I had to kind of gingerly walk him around the idea that such migration didn't happen naturally, and that even with the mass migration he was looking at, that still wasn't accurate outside of the major cities.