Autistic people of color/ ASD and Ethnicity

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Actually, there is a little more to the racial relations situation in Melbourne than I implied earlier. There has been some controversy about Sudanese refugees, with some people ignoring histories of suffering and generalising from isolated instances of antisocial behaviour. I believe that there has generally been in Australia some issues with attitudes to Muslim immigrants (not a single ethnic group I know) and the immigration policy of our current Federal Government, a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party (yes I know detention centres began under a Labor government - American English spelling used for the Australian party unlike British Labour) with regard to asylum seekers has been pretty dreadful. This is probably moving more towards content appropriate to the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Forum rather than Statistics.

looks like I am an American, with roots of Irish-Spanish (survivor when the Spanish Armada cracked up on the coast of Ireland) and French Huguenot ( baby in a basket rescued in a shipwreck on the way to US and named Benjamin Franklin Phillipe by the adopting rescuers.) and Swedish enough to make me sweat like I am in a sauna alla time. Some ancestors migrated from Germany with a religious sect that became the Pennsylvania Dutch.

I had red hair before it all went grey, and I have a fair complexion that tans beautifully. I pass for white, and I guess I am, but I doubt if any of my forbears were from the Caucus Mountains, though (Caucasian)

I went to Ellis Island once and looked up all the family names, and there was only ONE there and she came through and married a far offshoot 5th cousin of my mom, but that was it. I remember people around me being astounded, they had never realized that before Ellis Island people long ago could just take a ship and dock on the land mass of North America and just walk on in!

So I guess I am just as an "American" than any "original People" that walked over the land bridge from Asia.

Merle

Mom's side- Cherokee, Choctaw & Welsh
Dad's side- Cherokee, Ashkenazi Jew and Creek (Native American tribe)

Oddly enough I am told I don't look Native nor Jewish, but instead am accused of being Mexican or Middle Eastern.

I am 1/4 Polish and 1/4 Puerto Rican, and the other half is a mix of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Norweigan, French-Canadian, and English.

I have Scottish, Irish, Alsatian (a French/German mix), and Cherokee blood in me.

Tim

Northern European -- Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, Alsatian, Austrian -- in that order.

I'm German/Polish/Ukranian/British

Mom's German/Polish/Ukranian

Omi's pure German


Opa's Polish/Ukranian


my So called Dad is pure British

I have these backgrounds: Irish, German, English, Welsh, Polish, Cherokee, Osage, Jewish. A lot of these are relative.

I'm Caucasian.
I have a German/Dutch (roughly half of both) background.
My father is an honorary black person. The black people he socialized with declared him "too cool to be a white guy".

I am an Alaskan and therefore quite oblivious to 'America.' Never lived on the continent. I love Alaska too! But I am not an Alaska native - I am Caucasian.

I am of European ancestry. Most especially UK background; this means English (mostly) - family from Blackheath near Birmingham. And Scottish. Some French-ness in there. And my great grandmother was from India - Kashmir region, Muslim Sikh.

This means I'm white (born in AK means really ghastly pale - never had a tan - genetic too though)! I have dark green eyes with dark eyebrows and eyelashes, dark around the eyes. My hair is dark blonde.

I think OP meant ethnicity, not so much demographics, which can be misleading. I think we all know that anthropologically there is no such thing as human race, by definition. We have cultures, ethnicities though.

I'm causaian (how do you spell it?)