The only thing that I'd point out is that the original discussion, people actually were saying, "Teyla's not white?" I'd also be one to see her and think, "mixed" after I thought, "hot." And also that you're thinking with much more precision than the discussion in question, which offended me because it seemed like the divisions were "white/black/South Asian" and that's...not really quite true even for Ireland/UK.

I mean, the eyebrow I raise with the Latino/Hispanic issue is that we seem to be talking about some criollo motherfuckahs, because I think there are quite a number of Latino/as that wouldn't pass in the UK or US as "white" and the Spanish-speaking would probably turn the "tanned" ones into people of color in the UK as readily as in the US.

Still...if I heard those folks saying, "I would assume mixed" I would totally not be mad at all, but I don't think that level of racial/ethnic shading is, um, in that conversation. Or why it's vaguely offensive to just group not-black or not-Asian as white.