Still other cultures lack the concept of specific, fixed names designating people, either individually or collectively. Certain isolated tribes, such as the Machiguenga of the Amazon, do not use personal names.*
* The Machiguenga may have nicknames, but generally refer to each other by how they are related. They may disambiguate with biographical information, such as "sister, the one who slipped in the river".
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Anyone who says "people have names" is a wrong assumption can be safely dismissed as a crank.
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Not all cultures assign names before/immediately after birth.
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The crank spent no fewer than five other items in his list on that point. I'm going to charitably assume he was not repeating himself further.
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And those cultures should be ignored.
That's more than a little ironic coming from an AC.