In my case i think my partner is getting grief, because she has quite dark hair and pale skin. Shes british through and through, but she has been called lebanese, also the childcare place she works, a woman complained to her boss that she wasn't wearing a headscarf (non of the non-muslims wear them), to which the boss replied "well why should she, she is from UK - "Oh thought they were arabic" the woman said. She also got commented on her good English for an Arabic girl - lol.