I haven't heard anyone here around me calling anyone "black"
Wait.
What?
Where are you that you've never heard anyone call a black person, well, "black"?
Wait.
What?
Where are you that you've never heard anyone call a black person, well, "black"?
As a function of language (black being an English word) and of fish not calling other fish wet.
Various EU countries are also a possibility, not all countries make such a deal of pigmentation as does the US | UK, etc.
Every one of them, I've heard people calling black people "black".
I've also been all over Western Europe, and it's the same story. I've definitely heard the people in Paris, München, wherever call black people "black".
I thought the answer would be someplace I haven't been. Like maybe parts of Asia outside of Japan and China?
Maybe Eastern European nations use a different term?
Or maybe other parts of Africa? (SADC nations maybe?)
But they definitely call black people "black" in the Gambia and Nigeria.
In my experience, which may differ to yours, it was as common in Benin to refer to someone as black as it was in Zurich to call another white.