The Sami seem to come up on HN on a lot, but one angle I rarely see mentioned is how thoroughly assimilated into the majority cultures they are. I know two peo

The Sami seem to come up on HN on a lot, but one angle I rarely see mentioned is how thoroughly assimilated into the majority cultures they are. I know two people of Sami descent, both of whom are from intermarried families, are physically indistinguishable from non-Sami, speak the majority language as their mother tongue and struggle to connect with Sami language, customs like reindeer herding, etc. And as the pie charts indicate, the vast majority of Sami are in this category. This is quite different to, say, Aboriginals in Australia, who are most definitely not integrated into the rest of Australian society.