White Irish person here with red hair, freckles. My girlfriend (same complexion) and I were on a remote beach in Thailand when a school class of local children arrived. The kids had seen white people before, but not people like us. At first they just stared. Then one of the children approached us and asked if they could touch my girlfriend's skin. She said, sure, no problem. That opened the floodgates. After that, every single child AND their teacher all queued up for their trn. My girlfriend was wearing a bikini and I remember one little girl in particular just rubbing and rubbing her skin, wondering why the freckles wouldn't come off.