@ Rich Mole. -- Sorry... standing my ground here. :-).   

Who exactly is "brown"? Who exactly is "white"? Should we start using other colours to describe people as well? Red people? Yellow people?  Do we want to there?  It's a bigoted way of describing people. No one, not even people suffering from albinism are actually white!  

"White supremacists" and other bigots define people in such simplistic terms. This kind of nonsense way of describing people has no place in a paper like the Globe. 

If the author wanted to discuss changing demographics due to immigration,  then the article could have done that without the simplistic devolution to describing people this way. It only feeds into bigoted viewpoints and empowers those who see others in these one dimensional ways.