I guarantee you your comment about short hair getting touched is untrue. I've literally never in my life seen someone ask to touch a buzz cut. But people ask or just go ahead and touch my nappy mess all the time. I don't mind when people I'm close to do it, but I would say a good 90% of non-blacks I meet ask to touch my hair. Most American black people look at it with disdain, or offer to style it for me, because they know I'm a lazy fucker and don't want to take the time to pick my hair. And most African black people like how wild it is and compliment me. Whereas white people tend to ask about 15 questions from what I can only assume is a pre-picked list. "What do you do with your hair in the morning?" Nothing. Shampoo. Rinse. Condition. "How long has it been growing?" 2 years. "Do you put anything in it to make it like that?" Motherfucker I just told you I do nothing to it.

And I'm not like offended, I choose to not pick my hair and let it grow wildly, it's not a typical hairstyle. It's a bit annoying, but only because people I don't know tend to distill me and conversation with me to that one subject. Hell, I love it when my friend runs her hands through it (most people have to ask but she just has these magic fingers.) However I do think it's a bit disingenuous to act like white people aren't enamored with black hair. Maybe it is different in the UK though! I would be lying if I said I didn't think all the accents from the Isles are brilliant.