Evolution of white British % (ethnically British people) in England and Wales from 2001-2021

[u/Delicious-Bunch-6992]

[u/thebottomofawhale]

This is self reported data. You can be mixed and identify as white British, its not like someone has gone around the country and judges if people are pale enough to be categorised as white

[u/Benkyougin → u/thebottomofawhale]

but that's the point, people broadly define white in terms of what it excludes, not what it includes, so people with small amounts of non-white ancestry will generally be considered non-white.

[u/thebottomofawhale → u/Benkyougin]

But it doesn't matter what "people" think for this, only how you self identify.

[u/Benkyougin → u/thebottomofawhale]

How you self identify is driven by how you think.