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I doubt the people you're referring to know what a Spanish or Portuguese person look like.
Do you think [these people](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2018/05/21/12/spain-squad.jpg) wouldn't pass as White?
But yes, it depends on the person. You can't infer the race of a person from his nationality.
In fact, a quick search online shows me that around 16% of Spanish people have blue eyes, and also around 10% of Turks have blue eyes (probably descendants of the White women they kidnapped).
A person with blue eyes is definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, White as blue eyes means you have a substantial amount of Nordic / Germanic genes.
Then of course a lot of White people don't have blue eyes, so I'd say the vast majority of Spanish/Portuguese/Greeks are White and a decent percentage of Turks too.
That doesn't explain why Europe look the way it does, ie: many people from the southern lands are not only darker but have racial features more similar to the peoples from North Africa and Middle East than to Central and North Europeans.
Adaptability to climate/environment doesn't do that, as you know there are people with nordic features not only in Southern Europe but also in North Africa and the Middle East, they descend from Visigoths, Vandals, women slaves, etc (obviously disconsidering recent migrations).
Also, let's not forget a sizeable number of Russians who, despite having blue eyes, have visible Asian racial features.
I'm not trying to be divisive here but these are facts, there are various levels of mixing within Europeans even if we are to consider all native Europeans white. We tend to draw the line with more recent mixings, for example there is a member here who is half German and half Indian and he said that he can pass as Mediterranean, if that's true, is he white? If he and a nordic woman have children, would they be white?