Colonization plays a large part. The British deliberately favored fairer skinned South Asians over the darker ones. This caused the darker skinned people to get skin coloring or seek a lighter skinned partners.
It’s very sad actually. Everyone here knows how I feel about the Indians, but I can never justify racism based off skin color.
Modern media further reinforced this vile behavior. From Bollywood to Hollywood continually build upon these.
From what I gathered from listening to Indians ranting online, I don’t even think they understand their religion too well. They’ll blame the caste system as invention of the British but their own religion speaks about it.
The Eurocentric beauty standards is dominant across the world including in Asian nations. Another reason why Turkey and Iran have to succeed because the white nationalists only consider Asians and whites as worthy of respect and dignity, everyone else will be subjected to brutality because they truly believe those are low IQ and subhumans.
People keep trying to import American political concepts into the UK as if they map one‑to‑one, but they really don’t. “White nationalism” as an organised ideological identity is largely a
US phenomenon, born out of their own history, demographics, and racial politics. In Britain, the dynamic is very different. The far‑right here isn’t built around some pan‑white identity where Poles, Latvians, Italians, Spaniards, and Brits all see themselves as one unified bloc. If anything, the UK’s nationalist fringe has a long record of hostility toward
other Europeans — even when they’re white, even when they’re Christian, even when they’re culturally similar.
You can see it in how Eastern Europeans were treated during the 2000s and 2010s: constant tabloid panic, “taking our jobs,” “changing our neighbourhoods,” and so on. These people were white, Christian, and European — yet they were still targeted. That alone shows how different the UK context is. The hostility isn’t built around “white unity,” it’s built around a narrow idea of
Britishness and who is considered “from here.” If you’re not seen as part of that, you’re lumped into the same “outsider” category regardless of skin colour.
And yes, politicians often focus their rhetoric on brown or Muslim communities — that’s the part that gets amplified because it’s easier to weaponise culturally and visually. But that doesn’t mean the underlying sentiment is “white nationalism.” It’s more like a general anti‑immigration populism that shifts targets depending on the news cycle. The elites absolutely play groups against each other — they always have — but the ideological foundation in the UK is not “white people uniting.” It’s “British vs non‑British,” and the definition of “British” gets narrower or wider depending on who’s talking.
Meanwhile, the US has a completely different historical trajectory: slavery, segregation, civil rights, and a long tradition of explicitly racialised politics. That’s why “white nationalism” as a label makes sense there — it grew out of their own internal conflicts. Trying to paste that onto the UK just doesn’t fit the reality on the ground.
So no, the idea that there’s some unified “white nationalist” movement in Britain is just not accurate. The far‑right here doesn’t care if you’re white; they care if you’re
local. And if you’re not, they’ll treat you the same way regardless of whether you come from Warsaw, Lahore, or Lagos.