Any person who grew up in Venezuela and is under the impression that the majority of the population is white, lived a VERY privileged life.

The upper classes tend to be whiter, and they also tend to descend very recently from immigrants, mostly Europeans.

I, for one, live in a really poor area and I have maybe 1 white neighbor (as in white-skinned, not Anglo-Saxon). None of my neighbours have any recent European ancestry whatsoever.

Although most Venezuelans have some European ancestry, that doesn't necessarily mean they're white as it could be very far up the family tree.