Why is he green?

That was the thing which bothered me the most about this film too, and at first I wondered why no-one was mentioning his green skin colour. Then I remembered something I've heard many years ago, when I was a small child I heard someone talk about Indians being red, Asians yellow, Africans black, Europeans white and some others (it might have been Creoles, as it was certainly a word I've never heard before and back then I most certainly didn't know what that term) being green. Not only is this all a load of rubbish, but even back then I was very puzzled about that categorizations and I wondered where those "green" people where living as I've never seen one of them.

I don't know who came up with all that nonsense, and to make someone literally green and act as if this would be normal for a Creole from the West Indies is absolutely ridiculous and I wonder if anybody back then in Europe was really so naïve to believe that.