I have answered this elsewhere, but that is not what I meant to say. I am sorry that it came across like that.
I meant to say that referring to the concept of white privilege demonstrated how the commenter was speaking from a North American perspective. It's certainly an issue in European countries that people are judged by the color of their skin, but depending on the individual country (the UK being more of a melting pot than Denmark), perceived ethnicity is a lot less likely to be "white".
I'd say that in Denmark, darker skinned people in interaction with people they don't know are treated worse than lighter skinned people as a general rule, but the average person is likely to have an idea if a dark brown person they interact with is African-American, Tamil, Ghanaian or Somali, for example, at least subconsciously, and those ethnic groups are not lumped together, and they are not ranked together when it comes to the general respect the average xenophobe feels for them. Even in police reports, witnesses generally have a much more definite idea of a perpetrator's ethnicity than just the color of their skin.
Re: here via metafandom
I meant to say that referring to the concept of white privilege demonstrated how the commenter was speaking from a North American perspective. It's certainly an issue in European countries that people are judged by the color of their skin, but depending on the individual country (the UK being more of a melting pot than Denmark), perceived ethnicity is a lot less likely to be "white".
I'd say that in Denmark, darker skinned people in interaction with people they don't know are treated worse than lighter skinned people as a general rule, but the average person is likely to have an idea if a dark brown person they interact with is African-American, Tamil, Ghanaian or Somali, for example, at least subconsciously, and those ethnic groups are not lumped together, and they are not ranked together when it comes to the general respect the average xenophobe feels for them. Even in police reports, witnesses generally have a much more definite idea of a perpetrator's ethnicity than just the color of their skin.