[JetSetWilly]

You must work in the BBC drama department if you believe that people in Britain, France, Germany etc are not historically and overwhelmingly white.

[thrance]

Factually, whites were a minority in the French Colonial Empire of the 19th century.

[e40]

The empire was much more than the places mentioned in the comment you’re replying to.

[Apocryphon]

Algeria was considered an integral département of France, so technically they might be right if that population was substantial enough.