You're not naive enough to think they are going to be anything but French mainly….. Why would you even think anything else!? Where does naivety even come into it?
You only have to do a google image search of 'white coloured' to realise the offence the term can cause and represent. People think words don't have inherent cultural meanings, but they do. In the UK we didn't experience the extent of discrimination in say the US or South Africa, but the term...