Is there a general Black perception of the world? As in how Black people interact with it, as which is described in a general outline?
No…“Black” is a huge grouping that’s going to encompass everyone from an African-American teenager in LA to a mom working in a hotel in Antigua to a Somali refugee in a camp in Kenya to the President of South Africa . What general perception of the world do you think these people would all share?
Just a general outline, I was hoping you would comment, maybe you can help me flesh it out as its hard to for me to describe.
Again, the answer is no, I don’t think there is a Black view of the world, any more than there’s a White view or an East Asian view.
About as impossible to answer as “What general perception of the world do you think white people all share?”
Since the OP specifies Black with a capital B, the assumption is that he is referring to Afro Americans
Even if discussing just the black skin shade here, there is a wide variation in people desribed as Black . Then there are people who are mixed Black Americans, the vast majority.
That’s not my assumption. Black and African-American are not synonyms - for example, Ilhan Omar is Black, but not A-A
See the post immediately above yours.
Why do people buy and use so much sun screen? Even when its cloudy? No.
There’s a Eurocentric view of the world, which is predominantly White
Do you think Swedes and Albanians view the world similarly?
Is there? One common Eurocentric view? What are its tenets?
I’m not so sure about that (the second part, that is). I know for a fact that some Black African immigrants to the US think of themselves as African America (and in many cases are treated as African Americans by most others in the US). I’m not sure what Omar considers herself.
And many others don’t.
And in may other cases, they’re not - see the examples in my cite. One thing several African immigrants remarked on, for example, is getting more hostility from African-Americans than other Americans. That certainly wasn’t those African-Americans treating them just like everybody else.
And not that officialdom defines identity, but the US Census Bureau says “There are three major groups that represent the Black Audience in the United States. These groups are African Americans (Blacks born in the United States), Black Africans (Black Immigrants from Africa) and Afro-Caribbeans, which includes Haitians”. (pdf link, page 225
She openly identifies as Somali-American, and i don’t think I’ve ever seen her directly refer to herself as African-American.