What race are most of your 4 biological grandparents?

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Not only that. Might it be possible that health services in developing countries might have more immediate health needs such as basic vaccinations, malnutrition, potable water, getting shot at etc. Diagnosing ASDs and other conditions of this kind may be a little further down the line for them.

I voted "other" purely because I wanted to see the votes or rather, whether people were actually voting at all.

I find the ethnicities on offer in the list somewhat random. That's apart from the fact I find race as defined by a short list of the kind offered here sonewhat random too. Most races are mixed, even within one category. So no, merely looking at my grandparents (apart from the fact they're dead) is not in fact going yo help that much.

Finally, is the OP saying Ashkenazi Jews are a "race" but Sephardic Jews aren't? can this be true? Happy to stand corrected.

Western European. Basically Pavee but very mixed.

All four of my biological grandparents were white.

All white. Irish, Welsh, English and Dutch to be precise.

I have Han and uyghur blood.
Uyghur is the indigenous people of Xinjiang, china, a mixture of Caucasian and Asian.
I might have Taiwanese aborigine or Dutch blood too, but not likely.

I'm black with multiple nationalies.

My maternal and paternal grandparents were mostly black but my maternal grandparents have European and Native American ancestry (from my maternal great-grandmother) in their blood such as Scottish, English, and Cherokee. I also got Cape Verdean, Rhodesian (Zimbabwean), and Bermudian ancestry from my mom's side.

I don't know much about my dad's ancestry as he's black, and I started to find out what's the rest of his ancestry as my paternal grandfather is an Bahamian immigrant and my dad's mom is an African American. I'm trying to figure out which African country my paternal grandmother descended from and it's likely that it's Ghana, Nigeria, or Sierra Leone are the countries.

You doubt that? Meet my cousin Patricia! She knows our family history back to the 1100's!

We are still white back then. But poor in Europe.

Edit to add:

Patricia is a Mormon. She does people's geneology for a hobby. She baptizes dead relatives a lot. When I die, I have no doubt she will make me a Mormon too. Unless I outlive her.

I was a little confused by that myself. In any case, three out of my four grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews, and the fourth was Lutheran Protestant. Thus, I voted Ashkenazi Jewish, even though a part of me wonders if the OP confused Ashkenazic and Sephardic. I'm 3/4 Jewish by ethnicity, though I did not grow up practicing any organized religion. If one goes by appearances, I appear to be white. However, I don't particularly care what my race is considered to be. Racial classification has always seemed somewhat arbitrary, and there are gray areas.
For instance, where I work, the population is heavily Hispanic. My Hispanic coworkers classify themselves as nonwhite, and consider themselves a race in and of themselves. Of course, those of Latin American background are actually the product of mix of races; Native American, Black and White. You get those who appear a mix of all of the above, a mix of two of the above, a little of one, a lot of another, and various other permutations. I've met Hispanics with blond hair and blue eyes, who look whiter than I do. However, based on their own system of classification, they are nonwhite.
All the same, we all hear of black people growing up in upper middle class families in the suburbs who are considered as culturally more "white" by those who know them. Conversely, there are white people living in the inner city, who identify more with blacks in the cultural sense. I've also met people from India, who are darker in hue, and others who could easily pass for white. I could come up with more examples if I took time to think about this.
Race is not as easily defined as some would like to believe. There's race as determined by appearance, race as determined by cultural identity, and race as defined by ethnicity.
All the same, I'm curious to see the results.
ETA: As mentioned above, I am a mix of Ashkenazi Jewish and Lutheran Protestant. I've noticed an interesting trend in the assumptions people make regarding me. Non-Jews tend to automatically assume I'm Jewish based on my physical appearance, without my saying a word on the matter. Meanwhile, Jewish people tend to automatically assume I'm not Jewish, because they claim that I "don't look Jewish." Go figure.

Last edited by OuterBoroughGirl on 30 Dec 2011, 12:05 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Human. And you fail genetics forever. Just... heck, just go look up race on friggin' Wikipedia or something. It basically comes down to either you abandon the attempt to split humanity into 'races' entirely - the sensible option - or you split us up into a very large number of small groups which are not necessarily delineated by nice easy racist markers like skin colour. And then you fail anyway as soon as people start mixing it up. But what you absolutely cannot do is take one stupid trait - "white", say - and assume that all people with white skin share similar genetics. That's silly.

More interesting to ask which of the six Eves you are descended from, or the six Adams.

I selected other. All four of my grandparents were either european or of european descent.

I selected "white", but I too think the term is extremely vague. I assumed your definition of white would encompass my grandparents' races which is why I chose that. For the record though, I can only tell you my ancestry back to the 1500-1600s. I have no idea where my family lived 10 000 years ago

All four of my grandparents, from the genealogical research I have conducted thus far, are almost entirely descended from Western Europeans. I actually do have "non-white" blood in me as well (Mi'kmaq and African-Canadian--that is all I know about so far), but it is quite far back so all of my grandparents are mostly Western European descent (all were born in Canada though).

will the poll reveal which race has more asperger syndrom, or which race is better at diagnosing it? or is more aware of it? and which thinks if you can talk you're not autistic?

The problem is, without doing DNA analysis, how can you really tell what race you are, predominantly. As far all those who say they know their family trees way back - how can this be? Do you have any idea how many ancestors that would add up to? I seriously doubt you know the races of every single one of your ancestors, just 5 or 6 generations back (and I won't even go into the probablity of illegitimate babies or men raising children as their own, never suspecting they weren't the biological fathers).

As for me, all 4 of my grandparents are Scottish and all of my great grandparents are Scottish, Irish or English. That in in itself raises race questions (Celtic or Anglo Saxon, etc). But, beyond great grandparents, I don't have a clue. I doubt I have 100% European ancestry, or anywhere close. My hair is semi-afro and my bone structure and skin colouring lead me to suspect I'm not all that white. So sorry, I haven't voted.

I remember hearing in an Anthropology class sometime before 1965 that the purest Caucasians on Earth were the Aborigines as Cook found them. I suppose the way the islanders got around in their canoes that there might have been a little mixture.

Mine are all southeast asian.