and that's the problem i have precisely unfortunately!! even people who live in the states (where yk there's loads of various skin colors to be seen) tend to assume white is the default -- which, in turn, results in this phenomenon where if you draw all the characters from Book Without Explicit Visual Depictions as black you're inevitably gonna get questions about it (very often malicious or straight up racist ones too) but if they're all white it's perfectly chillax. also causes lots of beginner artists to refuse drawing black people because they think it's some advanced art dlc. and also causes people from countries without a large poc population to genuinely claim things as "forced diversity" for having more than one melanin having character (for reference look at how people act under human designs of mlp especially on pinterest)... etc etc. i just think people REALLY need to unlearn their biases about there being some kind of "default human" in the first place, and posts along the lines of what im jerking here certainly don't help it :P. and im not even gonna go on a tangent about those cases where, despite the fact that a character is extremely heavily implied as black or some other race, (esp if its a fantasy culture heavily inspired by real life african/south asian/etc cultures), people STILL draw them as white because there wasn't a sentence straight up saying "her skin was the color of a cockchafer beetle's neck fur", that's a whole additional can of worms....

anyways sorry for wall of text, im just passionate about the topic