I must confess Eliza that the first time I saw a non-white person in my old village, I actually did a double take. Yup, a proper, "Huh! Wha' tha'?" I was pretty embarrassed and wound my neck in sharpish. That was two or three years ago now and the long time exclusively white demographic has shifted very slightly but significantly since then. There is now a young Indian family (or so I presume from their dress) and a proper flash looking Black geezer in a shiny BMW with a 'The Only Way is Essex' orange skinned Mrs with a little toddler - possibly the first mixed race child the village has seen in it's entire history!