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This is true. My most memorable experience of this wasn't even with someone well into middle aged either.
Wen't to uni with a guy who was lovely by all means, but grew up in a a village in an all country township! One day we drove down to London, through Tottenham to show him my old stomping grounds, mid summer, windows rolled down, with him loudly, and genuinely exclaiming with surprise "wow, I've never seen so many black people in my life!"
Heads turned pretty sharpish.
I'm 100% sure it was said in the most positive of ways but it was still a strange thing to hear, as I'd never really considered such a perspective before.