Quote:
Originally Posted by Gere
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.
|
Sami people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to wikipedia there's
40 000 sami in Norway,
20 000 in Sweden and
6000 in Finland. Then again one might ponder about samis integrating more readily in Finland because of the similar languages and thus distorting the true influence on the population.