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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many points in the article remind me of when I went to private school in the US.  I was just thinking about the hair touching.  I went to a predominantly black elementary school and rarely saw anyone white but it never occurred to me when I switched to a predominately white private school to try touch someone's hair that was different and ask lots of questions.[/quote]

Do you know that white women touch each other's hair? In HS we would braid each other's hair. [/quote]

I have very rarely seen a white girl or woman walk up and touch or stroke another white woman's hair without permission. Totally different from braiding circles. And yes, I am a white woman who has braided lots of hair. I remember being really surprised when I braided one friend's hair; she had gorgeous thick, red hair, but it was horribly coarse. Not what I was expecting. But anyway, you always ask first; it's common sense. That goes for any body part, frankly.[/quote]

Not in my circle of friends. Girls hold hands, braid hair, hug. It would not be odd in the senior lounge to walk up behind somebody and touch their hair.

Also we say "good hair" too for thick vs stringy hair, We also say "good skin"... For skin that tans vs freckly skin that burns.

I ask because my best friend grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood and school, I am her only close white friend and she comments about how odd it is to hear me on the phone talking about these things so casually it make her cringe to hear me say good skin... I said it in reference to my son who was at the beach with friends and I said ... Apply sunscreen ever hour you have the Irish skin, you will burn.

She was just surprised white people talk about skin tone.

Also, my H is a coach and he sometime touches the kids head, a black mom got upset, he's not a pet, don't touch his head, but then she saw my H did it to all the other kids and apologized later in the season.

Also we live in SS and the Hispanic moms always confuse me with the one other white mom on the soccer team, we look nothing alike, it happens.

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