Any minority autistics here?

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Technically, I'm mixed in ethnicity, but I look as white as sour cream

Mexican-American.

I'm a latino (mestizo to be specific) but apparently I can be mistaken for just about every ethnicity or nationality in the world except Germanic, Scandinavian, Slavic and black (I've been mistaken for an Arab, a Chinaman, a Japanese, a Jew, a Spaniard, a Canadian, etc).
Being a latino doesn't help if you really don't fit the stereotypes (I don't like to dance, for instance).
While Britain is surely one of the least racist countries in Europe, there is definitely a degree of social exclusion if you come from a Third World country.

I am a white South African - minority group. Many of my fellow citizens seem to think I don't belong here because I'm not African enough. That after being here for 11 generations. Europe is a faraway place we learned about in school...

Well if being gay counts then yes I am one I suppose.

Yeah, still not understanding. Why should it matter?
Does it matter? Who cares? We're all descended from the same apes, in any case.
Hell, most of us here are aspie or autie - which has greater genetic variation to NT's than skin colour.
Didja know that?

So, who cares...?

I find that most people who talk about racism are from the U.K, Africa, the U.S.A, New Zealand or eastern Australia...
Don't really get that here... Somebody mind explaining it to me? Is it really that common in those other places?

Most people here are from the U.K, Africa, the U.S.A, New Zealand or eastern Australia...
I don't think it's really more common in those places. I think it's a common troll topic.

Well, if you don't have many ethmins in your neck of the woods, racism won't have a particularly high profile.
Look into the American civil rights movement - prior to which, your colour determined where you could or couldn't sit on a bus, whether you could vote, who you were allowed to sleep with and the general conduct of your life.
That was and continues to be a pretty big issue for 20% of all US Americans - the wounds run deep.

Of course, adding the variable of ethnicity into the mix makes understanding how AS impacts your life a much more complex process.
Questions like "Did that guy give me a hard time because of my behaviour or my colour" require a great deal more analysis.

I guess to ascertain whether AS occurs in the black population as much as in Caucasians, you'd have to go to Africa - since there can be few blacks in the USA or UK who don't have a significant Caucasian genetic component.

Actually, in my city, there are so many different races. Chinese, Vietnamese, Africans, Eastern Europeans, Central Europeans, European-Australians and Aboriginal-Australians. If you can turn around twice without encountering another accent or dress style, you win a prize. Racism has never been a really big issue in my country - sure, there are racists, it's well known that there are, but the average person looks down on them. Always have.
The only real racial issue Australia had was that stupid "white Australia policy" that the still-mostly-British government of the time had in place. The average people hated it - anybody that wasn't of Western European descent was unlikely to gain entry into Australia. My grandfather certainly would not have been allowed in. That was a topic of discontent between the people and government - many had friends and relatives that were considered "too dark". This policy was brought on by the "asian fear" - and exacerbated further by the Japanese and what they did to POW's in WWII.
The main reason for that policies life, though, was the government simply couldn't think of any graceful way to back out of it!
As I said, they were still a very British government, even though Australia was legally an independant country.

But, that American Civil Rights movement had no effect here. After all; as I've said, racism has never been the biggest issue here - the only real racial tensions in Australia were from that stupid little British anti-Asian policy, and the occasional rural conflict with Aboriginals generations ago - of which American history far outstrips Australia in terms of cruelty to native populace.

Point being; does it matter anymore today? Certainly, there are the occasional racists - but they are viewed with contempt. So what does it matter?

I'm asexual and I have several rare medical conditions, including cleft lip and palate and a skin condition called ectodermal dysplasia. In most circles, I am not really counted as a minority, mostly, ironically enough, because there aren't enough people like me in any one place to be counted as such. I do, however, think it counts as much as being a member of any other minority.