Yeah that was an insanely ignorant comment from Antonio. Plus you can also make requests based on things like height, hair color, eye color, etc. Is that discrimination? You seriously think artificial insemination works by a woman just making the request and the bank just uses some random donor's sperm? I guarantee that's not how it works in France either...or anywhere.
Even in countries with tough regulations of info about sperm donors (so no "I want sperm from a 140+ IQ musician with modelling experience" or whatever), race is part of the "basic profile" you get. The Danish rules are: height, weight, eye- and hair colour
and race. Wanting a child that looks somewhat similar to you (or at least within the ball park) is natural.
Take height as an example, if everybody in the family are very tall and you get sperm from a very small man the kid could end up looking totally out of place as a dwarf among giants. Nobody wants that.
As a curiosity I can tell that Danish sperm banks have had a surplus of "produce" for many years and they can't export it to Southern Europe where there is a donor shortage because parents down there don't want their child to get a "Nordic look". So it's not just between races Tony. French and Italian women don't want Scandinavian donors either.
