Never heard of it and DOUBT IT EXISTS. Just IMHO, of course.
It is probably not a black thing specifically, but a tribal thing. You want to remember most what is closest to you.
Sounds like Ron Swanson.
I lost much of my ability to remember newly met names and faces in my 40s. I use attributes as a memory jog now.
I kinda have that a lot. Should I identify as black.
It’s stupid lazy, rude behavior.
They don’t give a shiiite about anyone but themselves.
I see it all the time.
Pop Culture unite: “Blast from the Past” had it right.
if their names weren’t generally a string of nonsensical letters we might not be blind to it
The interviewer is not someone "in that arena" so to speak. They were likely hired for their ethnicity and/or their genitalia. I indirectly knew a local news interviewer. She was as dumb as a post but could read from a teleprompter to ask questions as if she really knew about the subject. She was pretty enough but it was the ability to not freeze up, and just roll with the directions on the screen or in her earbud that kept her in that job.
It's the same as watching female "reporters" interviewing sportsball players or coaches. They barely know the question, don't care at all about the actual answer, and vaguely remember the name of the interviewee that their producer told them. Now if you asked that same "reporter" about clothing designers, Kardashian drama, or an episode of "Sex and the City", she'll go on and on, telling you everything you never wanted to know.
I’ve never noticed this. Perhaps it’s more about what they really care about. Did your college mates who never used professor names know the names of favored musicians?
And when it comes to gangsta culture, I can’t imagine anyone not knowing who Tony Montana is.
Interesting. I don’t always remember names but to those I do, I tend to call you by your full name. No Bob’s or Art’s, you’re Robert and Arthur and so on.
Insufficient data — you’d have to be able to observe how people address their perceived peer group vs. others.
If we mean “do other ethnicities show disinterest in my name” yep. To most Indian people my name is apparently “yes” :D
Among sketchy people of all colors, though, check your wallet if you find yourself being called “boss.”
You are wrong.
I was born lily white and I have always had trouble remembering names and faces.
My good friend and next door neighbor,
(who just happens to have been born black,
however, is my go-to guy to remind me.
Name blindness? I must be black and not know it. ;-)
"On online forums"? These names are all fake anyway. Why bother learning or remembering them? I have trouble keeping my own ones straight and the passwords too. Everybody has trouble remembering names sometimes. Even the scolds who reproach others for doing it.
So that is where that idiotic “Bro” thing comes from?
You seem insane.
My brother and I both have terrible memories when it comes to people’s names. We independently concluded it was because we grew up in the military. If you made a friend you would probably know him for about a year and a half. Then one of you would be transferred to another base.
“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Mulva?”
This must be the reason they just call each other Nigga all the time.