# The Black View of the world **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998 "2026-01-25T08:36:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/21 "2026-01-26T14:15:51Z")
If the topic is the worldview of Black Africans, shouldn’t it compared to the worldview of White Africans to show that, if such a difference exists at all, the difference involves Race and not just location? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/22 "2026-01-26T14:21:58Z")
I am reminded of various encounters witnessed in London whereby young and fervent African-Americans assumed that they shared a common culture with actual Africans and were disabused of that notion by the Africans. African-American culture is far more “American” than it is “African”, even if it’s a minority subculture in America. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/23 "2026-01-26T14:46:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Nope, not by a long shot: [Race of the World Population by olpin - Infogram](https://infogram.com/race-of-the-world-population-1go502yg18k62jd) According to your link, 4 percent of the world is Native American. The only way I can see to get that number is to count the great majority of the people of Latin America as Native American. But most would not classify themselves that way. In some countries (U.S., AFAIK Brazil), people do really mostly see themselves as falling in a racial category. In other countries (Mexico) they do not. I guess you are correct in denying that most people in the world are white. But if we just limited it to people who were pretty sure what their race was, we could get a much different result then if we excluded mixed race and those who do not identify with a race. What about Ethiopians? A lot of them say they are Black, and a lot do not, and it has nothing to do with how they look. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/24 "2026-01-26T17:22:26Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I guess you are correct in denying that most people in the world are white. I was directly addressing and correcting a simple claim made by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/25 "2026-01-26T19:09:42Z")
I know it’s poorly phrased, but it seemed to me he wasn’t claiming the whole world was predominantly White. Just the Eurocentric bit. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/26 "2026-01-26T21:16:54Z")
> [@Ryan\_Liam](#): > > 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? So asked in IMHO and answered widely as “no” (albeit I’d grant that in certain localities there are perspectives based on cultural realities that vary by race, such as that I likely have less concern when stopped in my car by a cop than a young Black man has, in the same city). OP - you raised the question - do _you_ believe there are any generalizable Black perceptions different than the generic median member of society? ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/27 "2026-01-28T07:47:35Z")
Yes, how they navigate white/european power structures in society and culture ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/28 "2026-01-28T07:48:35Z")
Correct ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/29 "2026-01-28T08:05:54Z")
I don’t think it’s going to be that unique to Blacks vs Asians or other POCs. And the kind of power structure a Black immigrant in Sweden has to navigate in interacting with the healthcare system is different from that of an African-American lawyer in NYC interacting with the courts is different to that of an African-American teenager in Houston interacting with the cops is different to that of a Somali refugee in Kenya interacting with a European relief agency is different from that of a South African government minister interacting with the EU is different from someone from the Windrush generation interacting with the Home Office. And so their methodology of interaction is going to be different. You’re being very evasive. **What commonality do _you_ think there is in “how they navigate white/european power structures in society and culture”?** ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/30 "2026-01-28T20:29:33Z")
> [@Ryan\_Liam](#): > > how they navigate white/european power structures in society and culture How? What “general outline” do you believe is present across different members of cultures and different Black demographics? A broad greater awareness of the role of privilege within societies often but not only tied to skin color? Is that the claim? ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/31 "2026-01-29T04:28:43Z")
“perception of the world’–that’s the most vague, indistinct question I’ve heard. What do you consider the “world”? Physically, economically, what? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/32 "2026-02-05T17:30:19Z")
It’s going to be different for most people. An individual’s perception of the world will be shaped by the people that they interact with, whether that be in person or in various forms of media…television, movies, the internet, etc. and their perception of how they themselves feel that they fit into the world, as they have defined it. One’s view of the world is very personal, while in many ways is shaped by their perception of how other people “like” them fit into the world as they have defined it. If a gay black man living in Baltimore, growing up as a marginalized person even within the depressed community of drug dealers and addicts, see himself as a confident leader, then he may have a certain feeling of superiority over others, including the police and the legal system. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/33 "2026-02-05T19:28:39Z")
They all have a predominant world view where historically white people have shaped the economic and sociopolitical environment around them, even if it is indirectly, which gives a specific perspective of how the world operate (Usually not in their favour) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998/34 "2026-02-05T19:49:10Z")
That goes for Brown and Red and Yellow people too… Also, different dominant White people shape the environment in different ways, and different POC will respond in different ways to that domination. There’s no monolith there, on neither side of the equation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-black-view-of-the-world/1026998.md?page=1)