I am white, and I teach mostly Latino students, and I assure you, they also want to touch my hair. It’s strange because I didn’t think my hair is any different from theirs, but apparently mine is finer, so they (especially the girls) occasionally want to feel my hair and they always go “oooooo”. LOL... I don’t get upset. Of course, they are just kids.
When my daughter was in elementary and middle school.. she had long, blonde hair. She would come home with “corn rows”. I sort of just stood there and said, “uh.. what?” Many of her black girl friends just loved braiding her hair.. the feel of it was different. Didn’t really bother me at all but it was a bit of a shocker.