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Do people actually get upset if you forget their name? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by xia@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If so, does that mean people actually remember a persons name & face after only one encounter?!

If not, why do we pretend they will be upset, and try to hide the fact that we forget an unfamiliar name?

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[-] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

How is that culturally insensitive?

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

He was Austrian in Germany and those are both very stereotypically Austrian names.

[-] SLfgb@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That just seems petty. They both sound like generic German names to me. There even used to be a Kaiser named Fritz. Just recently I was asking someon "was your name James?" reply: "no, Jason". It was a non-issue

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

He also had a bit of a chip on his shoulder about it, to be fair.

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