"I do hope that eventually, over a few hundred years, the human race has mixed enough so that we all sort of have the same skin color and appearance." The orig

"I do hope that eventually, over a few hundred years, the human race has mixed enough so that we all sort of have the same skin color and appearance." The original opinion piece paints too simplistic a picture of Britain - it's not quite as insular as it sounds. For example, the 2011 Census for England & Wales showed that there were 1.2 million Britons of mixed ethnicity (mixed race). It would be interesting to know if there are comparable figures for other European countries. The countries from which most foreign-born residents come are (in order of population size in England and Wales): 1. India, 2. Poland, 3. Pakistan, 4. Republic of Ireland, 5. Germany, 6. Bangladesh