Interestingly, the "default" carrot in India is not orange, but purple. Which means there is a good billion-plus people for whom "a thousand years of carrot history" have not been wiped out.
There are non-orange carrots in my local supermarkets in Sydney on occasion as well, but they're considerably more expensive and don't actually taste any different, so there's not much of a market.
There are non-orange carrots in my local supermarkets in Sydney on occasion as well, but they're considerably more expensive and don't actually taste any different, so there's not much of a market.