“So you got the good kind then”

I used to work as a phlebotomist and was working on a research study aimed at 55+. It was a simple job, greet the participants, go through a health questionnaire, take their blood and send them on their merry way.

I am asian by ethnicity but I have lived in UK practically my whole life but atleast once a day I would get “where are you ACTUALLY from” question. However, this one man was very eager to know all about the country I am “actually” from and claimed he was very interested in the culture and as such. He asked quite a few questions which i answered to the best of my abilities considering I have not lived there since an infant. He then asked me how come my skin colour is so fair when majority of the people he has met from that country tend to be darker. I get that a lot since i m really fair and most ppl r used to asians being relatively dark-skinned. I explained to him that I am from a specific part of the country and people from that area generally tend to be light-skinned and just some other genetics. Thats when he paused for a second and said

“Oh so you got the good kind then”

I thought i misheard so i said pardon? And he repeated himself saying

“You got the better version of skin then, haha” and carried on like nothing happened. I wish i would ve said something but I was too dumbfounded and honestly didnt even register it for a min.