Admittedly it's not just white people with me - you give me multiple people of similar skin tone, body type, hair, age, and gender presentation, with generically attractive features, and I am probably going to get them confused regardless of race (Given how little skin tone has to do with race, I occasionally get black actors confused white ones). It's just that in US and European media I so rarely *get* more than one character who match on something other than light-skinned, thin, young-ish and generically attractive...
(Part of the reason I liked Community so much is that it's always really easy to tell the characters apart - I got Britta and Annie mixed up a little at first but they stuck to different hair colors, and everybody else are clearly different people, and offhand I don't know of any other TV shows with that much diversity of appearance in the main cast.)
I suspect I'm not to the point of faceblind - I can usually tell people apart in real life, unless they are really really similar and also move the same way? But then again, in real life I encounter a much wider range of variation than I do in Hollywood movies...(I could tell Coulson apart from the other main characters in Avengers at least, because he had different hair! It took me awhile to realize that Coulson was the same character in several movies though, and I couldn't reliably pick him from other background SHIELD agents unless something in the staging marked him as 'special' - I could have sworn I saw him alive in the background in the last scene with Nick Fury, but everyone else I talked to promised me he wasn't there.)
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(Part of the reason I liked Community so much is that it's always really easy to tell the characters apart - I got Britta and Annie mixed up a little at first but they stuck to different hair colors, and everybody else are clearly different people, and offhand I don't know of any other TV shows with that much diversity of appearance in the main cast.)
I suspect I'm not to the point of faceblind - I can usually tell people apart in real life, unless they are really really similar and also move the same way? But then again, in real life I encounter a much wider range of variation than I do in Hollywood movies...(I could tell Coulson apart from the other main characters in Avengers at least, because he had different hair! It took me awhile to realize that Coulson was the same character in several movies though, and I couldn't reliably pick him from other background SHIELD agents unless something in the staging marked him as 'special' - I could have sworn I saw him alive in the background in the last scene with Nick Fury, but everyone else I talked to promised me he wasn't there.)