To expect my white dd not to be an ethnic minority in her own country

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First of all i would like to make it clear that i am in no way racist.My childrens father is half asian (although he is also an irish catholic too).
Anyway today i was late dropping DD2 at pre school and i got to see her whole class for the first time.This is when i was shocked to realise that she is the only white child in her class.
I think i was shocked as we don't live in a particularly ethnic area or so i thought.I read in the schools ofsted report that 40 % of the kids in the school speak English as a second language.
At first i thought it would be good that she can mix with children of different races and i am all for a diverse society.However something about the fact that she is the minority has worried me.AIBU?

speedymama, i do agree with you, however as i mentioned in an earlir post, when my parents came to this country from ireland 50 years ago, they suffered racism. landlords would have posters in their windows saying"no irish" they were called "tinkers" "thick" "drunkerds" and really had a hard time. but they stayed here and just got on with trying to make a good life for themselves. my mother went on to become a ward sister, and my father head of a large building company. the vast majority of immigrants do just want a better life for their familys,and i know if i was living in a poor, (some times war torn) country, i would do any thing to get out.

Hurly and Queenie, ive decided to leave thread, ive started a more productive thread if you would care to join me, believe it or not i actually learnt something from this thread, perhaps i could be wrong (shock, horror face)

or anyone else for that matter, dont want to discriminate against anyone!!!!!!!!!!!

how is she the only white person if her father is half asian? surely that makes her 1/4 asian and not completely white. seems a bit hypocritical to me.

I read alot of this thread at first, then it seemed to change tack altogether. But I would like to add my ha'penny worth. My DS who is an only child, has just started at school where he is the only white child. All the other children speak English, and there is no predominant culture. But yes I have an anxiety for my child.Especially as he is an only child. Why, because I don't want him to have an early experience of feeling different. We gravitate towards what we know. I have a chinese friend, she told me her son was pleased to have a boy with similar facial features to him "mummy, mummy there is another chinese boy in my class" the boy is in fact malaysian, but her son had chosen him and was pleased to have him in his class. My first school was in Jamaica,where there was only one other white family in the school, the little girl became my best friend.As children we seek out people who make us feel normal. I suppose we do that as adults aswell.
A question, what experiences have you mums had of your child making friends in such a situation, help us out here, don't condemn normal parental anxiety.