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What race are MOST of your 4 biological grandparents?
Sub-Saharan african 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Ashkenazi jewish 6%  6%  [ 5 ]
White 66%  66%  [ 55 ]
Middle eastern/north african 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
South asian 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
East Asian 5%  5%  [ 4 ]
Southeast asian 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Arctic 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Amerindian 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Pacific islander 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Australoid 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other 16%  16%  [ 13 ]
Total votes : 83

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28 Dec 2011, 2:30 pm

I want to know if autism is related to race.



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28 Dec 2011, 2:38 pm

Wogaboo, you ask an interesting question. Unfortunately, race has been a taboo subject of inquiry, though that is beginning to change. In particular, the racial aspects of autism have never been studied insofar as I know.

I'd be interested to see the results this poll brings, but it won't tell us much. The people here are a self-selected group. To conduct a proper study would require a group chosen at random.



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28 Dec 2011, 2:41 pm

Not enough data. White is a meaningless term genetically.

Race is one of the questions on the research study my daughter is participating in.


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28 Dec 2011, 2:51 pm

I am half Polish and half German, All Slavic. and Now I am an American.



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28 Dec 2011, 2:52 pm

Human. Although there is some debate as to whether my maternal grandfather was raised by wolves.


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28 Dec 2011, 2:55 pm

I can't pick due to the fact I am biracial. Real races don't exist among among modern humans anyways.



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28 Dec 2011, 3:09 pm

I look "white". My heritage is majority Scottish, but some German, possibly Dutch, reputedly some Berber, and some North American Indigenous (probably Cherokee but we're not sure which tribe one of my great grandmothers was). I voted as white.



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28 Dec 2011, 3:10 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
Human. Although there is some debate as to whether my maternal grandfather was raised by wolves.


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28 Dec 2011, 3:12 pm

White but one is irish, one is welsh and the others are english.



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28 Dec 2011, 3:25 pm

Dunnyveg wrote:
Wogaboo, you ask an interesting question. Unfortunately, race has been a taboo subject of inquiry, though that is beginning to change. In particular, the racial aspects of autism have never been studied insofar as I know.

I'd be interested to see the results this poll brings, but it won't tell us much. The people here are a self-selected group. To conduct a proper study would require a group chosen at random.


Actually, it didn't used to be a taboo subject of inquiry. I remember in my teenage years filling out job applications that asked not only sex, but race, height and weight. Some asked for a photo.

But to the op's question, all caucasian.

He did not post variables correctly.


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28 Dec 2011, 3:25 pm

Define "White" in the context of race.



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28 Dec 2011, 3:29 pm

White in the context of race is usually seen as Western European, lighter skinned caucasians.

White in the KKK context is American of Irish, Scottish, English or Germen descent fully and only, and if in the South with only a minor part of your ancestors Indians. It also means protestant Christian and not Jewish, even though others of that particular racial makeup/ethnic heritage would be either Catholic, Orthodox or Jewish.

I say white as anyone not Black or Asian. I consider Hispanics white. Some wouldn't consider Eastern Europeans white!


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28 Dec 2011, 3:31 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
White in the context of race is usually seen as Western European, lighter skinned caucasians. White in the KKK context is American of Irish, Scottish, English or Germen descent fully and only, and if in the South with only a minor part of your ancestors Indians. It also means protestant Christian and not Jewish, even though others of that particular racial makeup/ethnic heritage would be either Catholic, Orthodox or Jewish. I say white as anyone not Black or Asian. I consider Hispanics white. Some wouldn't consider Eastern Europeans white!

Because of this kind of thinking, I selected "Other".



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28 Dec 2011, 3:37 pm

I define a white as anyone with at least 75% of their ancestors living in Europe 10,000 years ago.



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28 Dec 2011, 3:52 pm

wogaboo wrote:
I define a white as anyone with at least 75% of their ancestors living in Europe 10,000 years ago.

Gee ... I didn't think birth records went back that far ...

:lol:



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28 Dec 2011, 3:59 pm

Fnord wrote:
wogaboo wrote:
I define a white as anyone with at least 75% of their ancestors living in Europe 10,000 years ago.

Gee ... I didn't think birth records went back that far ...

:lol:


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