Comment on Nobody uses the white emojis

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  ish, but somehow it ends up that yellow is white people.

  look at the Simpsons for example, the default is yellow, but other skin colours are their normal colours, like black/asian.

  same happened with legos.

  it’s weird because any colour you choose for a “default” will end up mapped to the “cultural” default, rather than for everyone.

  might be because I’m racist. but for me all the xkcd figures are white, even though they are not racialised.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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…

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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

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