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Are there any Sami still left? The genocide of the sami and their culture is truly tragic and sadly ignored.
by qiskit 5y ago
Are there any Sami still left? The genocide of the sami and their culture is truly tragic and sadly ignored.
- BurningFrog 5y agoThere are plenty. Börje Salming is in the NHL Hall Of Fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rje_Salming
- samatman 5y agoWikipedia suggests around 100,000. Which doesn't sound like a lot, and maybe it isn't, but two useful comparisons are the 300,000 Icelanders and the 50,000 Faroese. If they're dying out that isn't clear from the numbers.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoThe Sami are assimilating rapidly though. They have been intermarrying for generations (previously often by force, these days quite voluntarily), and unlike Icelandic and Faroese, the Sami languages are dying fast since they've been replaced by Norwegian, Swedish etc.
- samatman 5y agoSure, whatever. I don't care about this conversation anymore because I was downvoted by the latest and greatest Europeans with sticks up their asses. Why? We'll never know. Participating in this site is not worth it sometimes.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoI didn't downvote you, but comparing the Sami, thinly stretched across remote regions in four countries, to the independent island nation of Iceland is, uhh, naive.
- FollowingTheDao 5y agoYes, the numbers range from 10 to 30,000. It was horrible, and it is still is horrible. They keep interfering with their traditional herding and lifestyle. Between imaginary boarders and logging and mining and now climate change, it is a constant struggle for their cultural survival.