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Originally Posted by Tuurikerttu

But then, Norway has officially some 40000 Saamis, and because of the attempt to erase Saamis from Norway through mixing, Norway has plenty of people with partial Saami ancestry.

Indeed, Scandinavians don't seem to like to talk about it. Often fingers are pointed to east. The fact is however, that both Norway and Sweden have much more Saamis than Finland and their area streches far more south, while in Finland Saamis are quite few in numbers and they are located at the extreme north of the country.

As far as Sweden is concerned, I think that you've got the picture all wrong. If you talk about Lapps in absolute numbers, then you have failed to take into account that Finland is less populated overall. I also suspect that the number of Lapps officially registered in statistics don't really matter much, at least not on a racial note. The Lapps in Sameland have indeed not been mixing much with Swedes, especially not if you look away from the areas that are closest in proximity to Sameland. What is referred to as Sameland here is the traditional area of the Lapps in Sweden. They have their own area and their own community with authorities and even special laws assigned to Samis only.

What you are talking about is more likely to be the effects of emigration of Finns to Sweden, from around year 1600 and onwards, with a more massive turn of events just about 50 years ago. The Woodsfinns and Smelteryfinns were quite numerous as far south as Värmland.

Your way of putting it sounds like that fennobaltic internet myth I was talking about earlier on in this thread. It doesn't always come in it's supremacy package though.