Yes racial background affects someone’s ability to recognize someone of different race.
<h2>Explanation:</h2>
This is called the cross-race effect and it is described by the ability to recognize faces more distinctively with people of the same race or the race they are more familiar with. The two hypotheses that best describes the cross-race effect are that in our societies we spent more time to learn about what distinguishes us from other cultures or society in terms of features.
An example would be Black people are set apart by their skin color. In the second hypothesis, people tend to categorize other people of different culture without learning the details about the race. All we see is that we are different and don’t bother to recognize less obvious differences.
