I think i'm watching too much indian stuff lately. As in too many red-brown skinned men :D Today i saw a nice looking guy in the store and thought "mm, he looks good, but is a bit too pale". Almost laughed out loud at myself as he wasn't particularly fair just had a rather pale skintone with contrasting darker hair. Yeah, well, this is England here, people can be very white, or even very pink... and there are more of these types, proportionatly, than what i got used to in Hungary, but until now the lots of black and asian people - whom i wasn't used at all - balanced this out. At home most people are white, even though more brown then here, but still white race (or is this word already considered non-pc?) We have a proportion of romani people and the occasional chinese shopkeeper and black students, but nowhere near the mixture of nations and colours and features like here. And it took me a while to get used to it, simply because it is strange. No wonder people get suspicious, prejudiced and even adverse. I can understand it now. Not agree, but realize that it is (another) human weakness.
It's one of those things i didn't came across at home and make this whole living-abroad, being uprooted thing a bit more valuable experience then just working in a sponge factory.