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 see your point and agree; the American model of 'race' in society is very different from the European model and of course all of it is made more complicated by the fact that there is no monolithic European model. *g* I have to say I do find the concept of "white privilege" at least provisionally useful in thinking about the UK but I can see that it might be less useful in other countries that don't share the UK's particular colonial history. Thanks again for the clarification. I am conscious of having somewhat derailed the discussion here so I'll leave it at that.