How do white citizens of Great Britain refer to black citizens of Great Britain?
I once saw an American female comedy special on Netflix - I forget who - claiming that she spoke to someone from Britain and asked this exact question. She then claimed that the answer was “We just call them…” and then used a word beginning with N that I can neither say nor type. Let’s deal with that right now: this is not true; it is a slander. That word is as sensitive here as it is in America.I tend to use words like “Steve”, “Andy” and so on. I find it helpful in general as it distinguishes which person you are talking about.If there is a need to subdivide the British population by race, and I almost never feel that need, then I would use either Black or sometimes Afro-Caribbean. The latter is a bit dated now, but I do it specifically to annoy certain right wingers who use black as an insult.Mostly, we don’t talk about race. There is some suggestion that we should. It would be a lie to claim that Britain is a haven of racial equality where every problem is solved. There are certainly problems of equality of opportunity - white kids tend on average to have more opportunities despite generally achieving less academically than other ethnic groups.If I were presented two people who do the same job in the same place, it would not occur to me to distinguish them by race. If they are of different genders I would mention that before race.Lastly, we rarely do the thing of prefixing citizenship with origin. There are no African-Britons. You do sometimes hear people talk about the “British Asian” community, which refers to people whose family came to Britain in the last few hundred years from India, Pakistan or Bangladesh (not Japan, as Asian would imply in America).