Have you ever seen a 'White' person, anywhere?

Question

I live in the UK, loads of forms here ask us if we are white and British, or other coloured and British.
There is never a choice for a pinky coloured person, but these are common, I have NEVER seen a White person, have you?

Answer 1

There are very few people in the world with no melanin. Have you ever seen a Black Person? Never seen a red or a yellow one either. Seems like we are all a different shade of brown.

Answer 2

I have personally never seen a "coloured" person - ie a person who is many different colours - or someone who has been coloured in.
Neither have I seen any-one who is black - only people who have various shades of brown.
Even some so called "white" people due to obsessive tanning have now become different shades of orange and brown. So maybe these "white" people should come under the banner of "brown". Or maybe, these tanned orange people are actually "coloured".

There, got full circle and responded to your question in the manner in which it deserved.

Answer 3

I think they mean white as is commonly understood by the term. If you REALLY want them to spend God knows how much money changing every single form to "Caucasian" and then having to explain it then you better not once complain about political correctness or government overspend. The only reason they have a box like that in the census or whatever is to determine how large the population of Asians or whatever is - it's not to say "well you're black, now we can discriminate against you".

Answer 4

Like you, I never put myself down as white on forms.
I don't understand why they have to classify people by the colour of their skin.

Answer 5

TIme for an anecdotal lesson.

Around 30 years ago I attended a women's conference at which Yvonne Braithwaite Burke was a speaker. During the questions from the audience period, one Anglo woman went up to the microphone and said:

"Why do you people call yourselves black? You're not really black, you're shades of brown"

Yvonne asked the woman "Why do you call yourself white? Is your skin actually white?"

The women at the microphone looked down at her arm and replied "No...I'm flesh-tone"

Yvonne smiled, and said, softly, "So am I, dear, so am I"

Answer 6

Good point. I've only seen a "white" person when I saw an albino once.

Answer 7

because everyone has grown up knowing the stereotypical terms white and black. If the forms had Caucasian written on it no one would understand what it would be asking. shame i know, but sadly the truth

Answer 8

Yeah shall we start crying racism!! I am a pinkish colour too!! I am not white!!

Even an Albino is not white - they are colourless!!

Answer 9

white people are everywhere the place , specially in new york city.

Answer 10

Only on the black and white minstrel show or anywhere else they have to white-up their faces ! ! !