On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:32:45 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2017\01\12 09:11, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
18:41:17 on Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Arthur Figgis
remarked:

You would clearly be surprised how many naturalised foreigners there are
in the country.

If they are naturalised, are they foreigners?

No, and that's the point. People assume that everyone with a "foreign
accent" is a "foreigner".

Some people also assume that of anyone with dark skin.

White Americans tend to call black Londoners "African Americans"!

I hadn't heard that one! Of course, I've also made the mistake of
calling black Americans Afro-Americans.