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The Nordic countries The next supermodel
The Economist ^ | Feb 2nd 2013 | unknown

Posted on 02/04/2013 5:50:35 PM PST by beaversmom

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To: eddie willers
Learn something every day. I’d never heard of the Sami. Catching up via Wikipedia. Thanks! I know. Me too. Learning so much from this thread. I guess it's probably "racist" and odd of me, but I never think of white people as "indigenous". I guess right along with the brown folks, some of us can be indigenous too. :) From Wiki: The Sámi are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe.
61 posted on 02/04/2013 11:21:16 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: eddie willers
Sa'ami ~ and there are numerous ways to spell it, and there still exist about 11 'tribes' ~ each with its own language. A couple of years back one of those languages went extinct with the death of the last member of that tribe.

I just recently caught up with the ancestors myself ~ and there they were ~ all 500 of them!

Well, there are the 5,000 or so still in Russia on the old homestead ~ where all those ancient petroglyphs are found.

That discovery occurred in the midst of a search for medical information to explain my father's heart problems ~ and there it was ~ a full compendium of special Swedish medical studies that'd focused on a single tribe of 500 people.

Yup, they are different than the Europeans ~ up to 14,000 years of separate but slower change in the Far North can do that ~ the mid-eastern yout's who attacked this Sa'ami girl are much more closely related to the Norse in Scandinavia than either are to the Sa'ami ~ the native people!

The reason you don't know who they are is there are so few of them back in the Old World ~ maybe 100,000 all told, then certainly that many mixed race people. But in America there are, best I can tell, at least 9 million of them! Almost none of the Americans KNOW who they are though ~ their ancestors having been brought here in the 1600s in the first great wave of depopulation in the Sapma.

Remember the stories about how well the "Finns" got along with the native American Indians in those early days? Well, it was all true, but that's back when "Finn" meant "Sa'ami" ~ which can explain an awful lot of genealogical problems for folks who've ever been frustrated in tracking down that elusive Finnish ancestor. Once you get to the Pennsylvania Lutheran church records, that's about it ~ doesn't go any further, and most of these folks were totally illiterate in any language BTW.

Now that you have a bit of background, you can see what the problem for the Swedish state is ~ it's racial ~ the 'normal', meaning 'average', Swedish girl is, herself of foreign immigrant stock if you go back about 2500 years or so. The Sa'ami are the native people ~ many off them are whiter and blonder than most ~ and in recent days, some of them are immensely wealthy, which suddenly makes them important to the Swedish state.

From the Sa'ami viewpoint, immigrant foreigners bringing in immigrant foreigners (Norse bringing in more of their own kind in the guise of Moslems) is just part of the negative side of history. From the Norse point of view, the interest shown by the state in this case must look strange since the Sa'amsvolk have, until recently been considered Arctic white trash ~ so that leaves them asking 'why their girl and not ours'. The moslems probably don't care one way or the other but they should. Eventually winter will come and the weak will be culled ~ as they have been over and over in the past, and then all will be made clear ~ people who are not adapted by God for life in the Far North simply don't belong there.

62 posted on 02/05/2013 4:40:13 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: beaversmom

Wow, super. Thanks for posting!!


63 posted on 02/05/2013 6:53:50 AM PST by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: 4Liberty

Thank you for the thank you and you’re welcome. :)


64 posted on 02/05/2013 8:30:41 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: Eurotwit

Good luck to you guys in kicking out the multicultural Leftist fools from positions of government power.


65 posted on 02/05/2013 8:34:25 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Eurotwit

Winter biathlon is awesome..

My advice to the Scandanavians - arm up now. Use cash. Don’t forget to BLOAT.


66 posted on 02/05/2013 8:43:03 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: American in Israel

Not to mention that there are only 4million people in the entire country.

It is like the US taking the whole budget to support the people of Houston...of course it can be done.


67 posted on 02/05/2013 8:58:26 PM PST by willyd
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To: willyd

Love your logic there Sherlock.


68 posted on 02/06/2013 12:23:39 AM PST by Eurotwit ("Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.")
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