You're right,my post did assume an overly simple idea of whiteness (it was aimed at the people on my flist, all of whom I'm pretty sure do fit into it, but that's no excuse for sloppy terminology) Someone like Pat, or my grandad, really has faced genuine ethnic prejudice in a way I can't really understand. *edits post, will think about this some more as well*

The kind of people the post was inspired by really don't experience any sort of discrimination though. I saw someone saying "I understand what it's like to feel erased. As a child, I would see the asian doll, the black doll, and the blue eyed doll but there was no green eyed doll". Because obviously that one asian doll adequately represented all the peoples of Asia, I mean it's not like any of them have green eyes...