It’s a bit of a dumb “gotcha” question to be honest.
Name 3 Indian people right now? Name 3 Russian people right now? Name 3 Argentinian people right now?
Most people don’t have a list of go-to names in their pockets based on nationality. And people in Europe will be much more familiar with other Europeans, and also Americans because we’re inundated in coverage.
I’m British with Irish heritage and I’m struggling on the spot to name 3 Irish people alive right now, yet I see a lot of Irish comedians, actors, musicians and TV shows on British TV.
It’s a specious argument that the question reveals what it purports to. Instead it reveals people are shit when put on the spot, and especially the further outside their day-to-day familiarity you go.
French people (Marie Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy, uhhhhh damn my brain forgot the name of the current president even though I literally read about him earlier today)
Swedish people (the King and no I can’t remember what number of Carl he is, a Swedish friend, oh fuck I can’t remember the surname of my other Swedish friend)
Estonian people (Kaja Kallas, holy shit where do I go now, oh yeah the Disco Elysium guys: Argo Tuulik… fuck who was the main guy? Who was the money guy?)
Russian people (Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin-- wait he’s dead, ok what about the geopolitics guy on Twitter nuh uh can’t remember his name)
Americans who aren’t or weren’t the president or the vice president (drew a blank until I thought of the RedLetterMedia guys, then realized I forgot Mike’s last name, then cheated by remembering Mike Morhaime’s last name instead)
And I’m not even on the spot in a studio. The human brain just doesn’t work that way.
edit: and for context I’m Finnish, so I picked neighbouring countries that I should (and do) know people from
I just realised that you could just guess based on the country if you know the naming system well enough. For Iceland I thought of Olafur Waarge, Bjork, and then tried and failed to name the female prime minister/president around the 2008 finacial crisis and just threw out “Freya Thorsdottir” and it’s a person. No idea who the fuck she is, but she exists.
🇮🇳 : Visby anand, gukesh d, Modi.
🇷🇺 : Ian/yan nepomnyaschchi , daniil dubov, Putin.
🇦🇷: Christina Kirchner, Alberto Fernández, Mirta legrande.
🇮🇪: dará O’Brien, RT game, foil arms & hog. Danny Dwyer. The bastard transphobe Graham lineman.
I came up with these names on the spot. I might not be able to make three Mauritians, but come on, if you follow anything international, you can name 3 Chinese people. They are there from politics to snooker.
🇨🇳: ding liren, Wei yi, Hu jintao
Edit: I only put gukesh with d because it is acceptable, and I might misspel domajaru
It’s a bit of a dumb “gotcha” question to be honest.
Name 3 Indian people right now? Name 3 Russian people right now? Name 3 Argentinian people right now?
Most people don’t have a list of go-to names in their pockets based on nationality. And people in Europe will be much more familiar with other Europeans, and also Americans because we’re inundated in coverage.
I’m British with Irish heritage and I’m struggling on the spot to name 3 Irish people alive right now, yet I see a lot of Irish comedians, actors, musicians and TV shows on British TV.
It’s a specious argument that the question reveals what it purports to. Instead it reveals people are shit when put on the spot, and especially the further outside their day-to-day familiarity you go.
Name a woman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlS6JPUtE
It’s not that hard.
That’s gotta count, right?
Edit: shit, they said alive.
Yeah I sat here trying to name three of:
And I’m not even on the spot in a studio. The human brain just doesn’t work that way.
edit: and for context I’m Finnish, so I picked neighbouring countries that I should (and do) know people from
Teemu selanne, miikka kiprusoff, linus torvalds…
first 3 finnish people i could think of…
If i had to name 3 more, they’d also be hockey players, :(
I just realised that you could just guess based on the country if you know the naming system well enough. For Iceland I thought of Olafur Waarge, Bjork, and then tried and failed to name the female prime minister/president around the 2008 finacial crisis and just threw out “Freya Thorsdottir” and it’s a person. No idea who the fuck she is, but she exists.
Yeah I feel like sports fans probably do better than average on this quiz. Nationalities are quite prominently considered there.
Narendra Modi. Raoul Gandhi. Gina Gopinath.
Vladimir Putin. Dimitry Medvedev. Oleg Deripaska.
Lionel Messi. Mauricio Macri. Cristina Kirhsner.
🇮🇳 : Visby anand, gukesh d, Modi.
🇷🇺 : Ian/yan nepomnyaschchi , daniil dubov, Putin.
🇦🇷: Christina Kirchner, Alberto Fernández, Mirta legrande.
🇮🇪: dará O’Brien, RT game, foil arms & hog. Danny Dwyer. The bastard transphobe Graham lineman.
I came up with these names on the spot. I might not be able to make three Mauritians, but come on, if you follow anything international, you can name 3 Chinese people. They are there from politics to snooker.
🇨🇳: ding liren, Wei yi, Hu jintao
Edit: I only put gukesh with d because it is acceptable, and I might misspel domajaru
Yeah, chess and YouTube would be my go-to as well. Apart from irish, I watch a lot of canadians and kiwis.