[poker-penguin]

Very true, however, when I lived in Central Africa (as a child), if you mentioned someone's skin colour it was white (even though I am very white) "this man said I was a great football player " was a black guy, otherwise it would be "this mundeli [white guy] said I was a great football player"

So maybe it's just that we assume unspecified people belong to the majority group in the community we live in.