any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default
Now I’m wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?
Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly…
but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.
If xkcd introduced character whose head-circle was filled with black, that character would definitely be viewed as black. But - if all the characters had black heads, would we default back to all of them being white?
i think we can look at ancient art, which sucks for me as I was in the Detroit institute of art and they have a huge African art exhibition but got too exhausted just before getting there and missed it.
exploding that exhibition might help shed light. because if old art portrays them with “non black” colours it would shed light into this question
Now I’m wondering if this has ever been tested on black Africans, in homogeneously black communities, do (or did) they perceive the yellow emoji as foreign/alien in any way?
Probably difficult or impossible to test, admittedly…
If xkcd introduced character whose head-circle was filled with black, that character would definitely be viewed as black. But - if all the characters had black heads, would we default back to all of them being white?
i think we can look at ancient art, which sucks for me as I was in the Detroit institute of art and they have a huge African art exhibition but got too exhausted just before getting there and missed it.
exploding that exhibition might help shed light. because if old art portrays them with “non black” colours it would shed light into this question