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Take for example, the Russian Blue cat.
It's a pure breed, but not initially through artificial selection. Russian Blues originated by natural selection because they lived and bred in a place for an extended period of time. You can take a Russian Blue out of Russia, but it will still have the pedigree of a Russian Blue cat.

Apply that to the "English" phenotype. Genetics have sloshed around that happy old island, and there are many phenotypes to be observed amongst the English people, yet you can often times find a genetic characteristic common to an exorbitant amount of English. This would be a characteristic of the "English" breed.

English do indeed have a general phenotype.