Expression and Perception of Identity Through Skin Toned Emoji

People do feel that the yellow is a synonym for whiteness. Dr. Alexander Robertson of the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics can get a PhD in the granularity of these issues. The association with white has less to do with visual similarity than with the fact that the yellow emoji is the default and within the British socio-cultural context, white is the historically dominant in default category.

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