Have you ever felt like a 'commodity' or a token?

I don't really know if I'm using the right term, but I was in a group situation yesterday.

And I was the only black female in the room, there were other people, British, Turkish, Iranian and Sri Lankan.

Anyways one of the British women came and sat next to me and seemed to take a liking to me.

At first I welcomed it, she was a little younger than me. So when we started talking I thought we might be able to find some common ground.

But very quickly she started telling me that her sister just had a baby and the child is mixed race. Because they are saving to buy a house they have moved back into her families home.

This is going to sound really odd, but when a few more people joined the group, said woman introduced me to them.

Now I personally felt odd about it because well the group is new and my understanding is that noone knew each other before the day.

She wasn't the group organiser, so I felt really displaced.

As time went on, there was talk about lunch and there were discussions about needing warm food as it was cold out.

Said woman turned to me and decided to tell me that she really like traditional food and has started learning how to make jollof rice.

I didn't want to be rude because I felt like she was trying to connect with me but I'm not African, so to speak.

I am by genetics but my family are Jamaican.

I politely turned to her and said " you're ahead of the game here, I've not been fortunate enough to have jollof rice".

She blushed and said that when she sees me again she will bring some for me to try.

I thanked her and tried to engage more in some of the other conversations.

I've not really encountered this type of "likeness" before so it was a new experience.

I don't really know if I should be offended or endeared. I'm leaning more towards her kindness but I don't want to feel like I'm being picked out because I'm different to the others in the group.