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| You don't live in America so you don't know jack about American race relations LOL |
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| You don't live in America so you don't know jack about American race relations LOL |
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merr
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| Helek_Aphel wrote: | 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". |
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LabPet
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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.
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ebec11
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I'm causaian (how do you spell it?)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| ebec11 wrote: | | I'm causaian (how do you spell it?) |
Caucasian 
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LabPet
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| 886 wrote: | | ebec11 wrote: | | I'm causaian (how do you spell it?) |
Caucasian |
It's spelled 'white.'
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pinkbowtiepumps
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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i'm also caucasian... it seems really interesting that a lot of us are of northern european descent, as someone else pointed out.
i myself am half italian, and the other half is russian, polish, romanian, and ukrainian (all of ashkenazi jewish descent) |
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HarrySutcliffe
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I'm caucasian. my dad is english but my mum is italian,french, portugese, chinese, swiss and spanish, lol  . |
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Sora
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I always wondered about the word 'Caucasian'. Now I know it's US slang for white.
I'm Caucasian and my family's all German since at least two centuries. Totally boring. The only cool thing that's running in my 'blood' is that both lines I descend from love English speaking countries. Our people constantly move other to the US, NZ, Australia, whatever. |
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Nico
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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I'm mixed. My mother is white British and my dad is black Nigerian.
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Warsie
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: Autistic people of color/ ASD and Ethnicity |
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| TaliDaRadical wrote: | | Same with my African American brothers. |
I'm here. 
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LabPet
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Sora wrote: | I always wondered about the word 'Caucasian'. Now I know it's US slang for white.
I'm Caucasian and my family's all German since at least two centuries. Totally boring. The only cool thing that's running in my 'blood' is that both lines I descend from love English speaking countries. Our people constantly move other to the US, NZ, Australia, whatever. |
The word Causasian is in reference to the people on the west side of the Caucase (sp?) mountains. Yes, that just means we have white skin. That's a misnomer really, we're more peachy beige. Whatever.
As posted above, there is a propensity for autism is Northen Europeans but I have no idea why - it's not just diagnostics eitther. Something to do with our bloodline. I don't know too much about this and there are plenty of exceptions. I read (somewhere) there's less autistics in Latino cultures, genetically.
Interestingly, Aspies/Auties have a propensity to having rh negative blood types. I am 0 negative! It's quite a marked difference! Don't know why.
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Tim_Tex
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You mean we all originated from Armenia or (ex-Soviet) Georgia?
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Warsie
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| LabPet wrote: |
As posted above, there is a propensity for autism is Northen Europeans but I have no idea why - it's not just diagnostics eitther. Something to do with our bloodline. I don't know too much about this and there are plenty of exceptions. I read (somewhere) there's less autistics in Latino cultures, genetically.
Interestingly, Aspies/Auties have a propensity to having rh negative blood types. I am 0 negative! It's quite a marked difference! Don't know why. |
Isn't that due to other cultures/etc having less of a focus and research; not as deep research into autism inthose cultures?
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MissConstrue
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I've been noticing that there seems to be a lot of people from countries that are located in the northern parts of Europe.
Is aspies common among the vikings?
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merr
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| MissConstrue wrote: | I've been noticing that there seems to be a lot of people from countries that are located in the northern parts of Europe.
Is aspies common among the vikings? |
Could it be that more collective/less individualistic cultures are less likely to get diagnosed because any diagnosis that makes you mentally different form others is considered taboo. i've talked to a friend from the bahamas who is studying psychology and she said in her school you would never tell if you were seeing a psychologist. it had something to do with appearing "mentally inept". it seems like in northern euro cultures, as well as the usa, we are determined to be understood as individuals, or demand that people be aware of who we are as single people, whatever we have. |
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