Sami Blood - Official Trailer

[@toxicperson8936]

I was born & raised in the USA (nyc & New Jersey specifically) but my entire family is from Sweden. My parents moved here from Sweden 2 years before I was born & we spoke Swedish at home. A few years after that, my grandma also moved from Sweden & started living with us. She actually did some modeling in Sweden, from the early to late ‘60s. I have an old Swedish magazine from November 1962, when she was 23 I believe, & she is actually posing topless in that magazine lol. Reason I’m mentioning this is to just show that for the most part, she was very progressive for back then, especially from her generation. She passed away a few years ago, in 2017 when she was 78. (For context, I’m 27 now, & was 22 when she passed away.) But my grandma was one of the nicest people you could ever meet, & she also wasn’t racist towards black Americans, Asians, or any other race of people you would see in America, which unfortunately is/was very rare for people her age. She also supported gay people (myself included, im a gay man) WAYYY before that was the norm. Even in the late ‘90s, she was pro gay rights & even went to a gay marriage ceremony for her friend before it was level. HOWEVER.. if you would of heard her talk about Sami people, she would come off as an extremely hateful person. Growing up in America I never met a Sami person until I was an adult visiting Sweden, but as a kid I remember thinking that they must really be a terrible group of people if my grandma, who doesn’t hate anyone else, really hates them. She would say they were dirty & would barely bathed, lazy people who didn’t want to work & just want things given to them, etc. She wasn’t even from northern Sweden, she spent most of her life in Göteborg (or Gothenburg) so she couldn’t have spent much time with them. I asked her when I was older & she even admitted that she never really spent any time with them, she just spent her entire childhood/life hearing people talk badly about them, however she still believed they were a bad group of people up until the day she died. Point of me saying all this, for so long, literally hundreds of years if not longer, the entire country of Sweden, as well as Norway, & I assume Finland & Russia as well, were all taught to hate these people, who just wanted to keep to themselves & do their own thing, for no good reason. So yes, prejudice against Sami people from the Swedish & Norwegian populations were a very real thing. I see many people thinking it wasn’t, because some Sami’s look so similar to Scandinavians. From what I understand & from what I’ve heard, as someone who didn’t grow up there but has always heard about them from my family who are were raised there, the prejudice against them was more about the difference in cultures, not about the physical differences.

[@jessicatyllmeis]

I'm from the northern parts of Sweden, but I studied near Göteborg and on that school there were mostly people from the southern parts of Sweden. Never in my life have I heard people speak so ill of the Sámi people like I did when I studied at that school. I think it's the lack of true knowledge of their history and living among them that makes the people in the south of Sweden so ignorant of the Sámi people. Sure there are those in the north who speak ill of the Sámi people too, but what I heard in Göteborg will always be burnt in to my memory.. In the south you don't get to see or meet the Sámi people. They don’t get to experience the beauty of their culture. They are watchful of new people, which is understanding due to all the hate they get..but when you get to know them, they are the warmest and kindest people you'll ever meet. They don’t deserve the hate some people throw at them (in the past or present) I hope that people all over Sweden, one day, will learn how wonderful the Sámi people are.

[@juliette_lummm]

The reason is the same as the one American and Canadian colonizers had for talking shit about native people: exploitation.

[@aumelb]

Russian people weren't taught to hate other indingenous peoples of the North. If there is some deep seated cultural prejudice it's perhaps against Mongols because of the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus that had enormous impact from 13th century on, and nomadic steppe people in general because historically, they used to capture Slavic people and sell them into slavery. I never heard anyone hate on Saami/Komi or other indigenous groups of north-western Russia. We are so intermixed it would be quite absurd. (Ethnic Russian with some Sami and Estonian DNA living in Australia.)

[@newfacenewyear]

Honestly you sound like you're excusing some really evil attitudes and like you have a distorted idea of what she was like. She might have been just an extravert or concerned with supporting ideologies that benefitted her, especially if she became an immigrant. But she sounds like she was mean where it really counted, which was questioning harmful beliefs in the context of the circumstances she grew up in. Imagine if you said she hated black people but you'd still grant her the status of "the kindest old lady"... Whether she's racist or not should matter.

[@Leif208]

I appreciate your comment and I think it illustrates some important realities. It's often the other people who are the closest to you in proximity, for whom you develop prejudices. My own Scandinavian American family, who lived in a Scandinavian community, had negative opinions about Swedes (my family was Norwegian and Danish). Certainly not racial, but cultural ("Oh those Swedes... they think they're so much better than everyone else." I remember some of my family, in my grandparents generation, would say). However, the Sami were considered different racially, not just culturally. To me, they appear quite different, especially the pure Sami. As I'm sure you're aware, the Sami have been mixing with the Nordic Scandinavians for a long time (there's even records of such unions during Viking times, though rare and very much condemned. Society would disown you if you did so). This is why some Sami look, to one degree or another, kind of Nordic Scandinavian (but usually with some "asian" Sami features). However, pure Sami don't look Nordic at all and were easily distinguishable. In fact, in the 1900's there was a policy in Scandinavia that included breeding them out. For some unrealistic reason (I think, related to the absurd notion of Scandinavia being some cultural and economic "utopia"), there's an absurd belief that Scandinavians aren't racist and never have been, including all the way back to the Viking period, which is not true at all. You may or may not be aware, but something I learned in my college Scandinavian Mythology classes (as well as my studies since) is that the inspiration for the Scandinavian legends about trolls, were the Sami people. Our ancestors were actually quite racist (just like pretty much every other race of people at the time).

[@Skelldr]

If you’re hating on this movie because you’re confused about skin color, then you don’t know what racism truly is.

[@Emerald_Knight]

Yea don't worry about the SJWS they are racist themselves. They only believe whites can only be racist toward other ethnicities.

[@blekota79]

Poles Germans also considered "unthermensen"

[@Borealis-Rainbow]

@@Emerald_Knight its the non "sjws" you are talking about that more than likely would deny racism against the sami people is real. Despite personally hating the term "SJW" its usually aimed towards people that commit to activism against racism, not the people being racist...

[@Emerald_Knight]

@@Borealis-Rainbow yes in that country but in the US people won't believe whites can be racist towards other whites. Plus I found this movie because I was researching these people after watching a movie called Klaus.

[@MrHanderson91]

@@Borealis-Rainbow nope. SJW refers to pathological pseudo tolerance.

[@richardzhou5496]

I suggest some people in the comments, if you're not purposefully being racist or troll, come to Lapland yourself someday, see the indigenous people here, experience their culture in a guided tour and listen these people tell you about firsthand history about Scandinavian colonization in Lapland, as well as challenges they've been facing to even this day.

[@Asdfghjkl-us5jr]

Yes!! I have Sami ancestry and I live in Finnmark. None of the people that are being racist/trolls actually know anythinh about us. They have never been here and don’t know anything

[@richardzhou5496]

@@Asdfghjkl-us5jr I watched the movie just after my return from trip in Swedish Lapland last winter, and every bit of the story felt so real and vivid to me.

[@tudormiller8898]

I'd love to know more about the Saami people, culture and history. Growing up here in London UK, the only person of Saami heritage I ever knew was the pop singer Bjork.

[@tudormiller8898]

@@Asdfghjkl-us5jr Being from London UK, I'd love to know more.

[@hybrid6692]

I totally agree , i have visited on two occasions and want to return when able , it's good to see something like this to help inform others of a not too well known or understood people.

[@MadOrse]

I think our Swedish education system did us a great disservice by not lifting this up more in history.

[@jol9105]

Thank the social democrats (Socialist Party) for that. They shaped the public education system and purposely left out their role in the race biology and sterilisations of Sami.

[@_peepee_]

something i’ve noticed about many nordic countries is that sometimes their nationalism gets in the way of talking about the ugly parts of their country. its a great place to live and very beautiful, but we all have to come to terms with our histories. please correct me if im wrong. im not from there, just interested in the culturep

[@jessicatyllmeis]

Schools in cities and towns in northern Sweden where the Sámi people live, teach about the Sámi people. I've noticed from my friends who are born and raised in the southern parts of Sweden that they have zero knowledge about the Sámi people.

[@spookydoughy]

@@_peepee_ You're right, but nowadays this movie is shown in class.

[@yeshiyangzom8532]

@@jol9105 the relationship between Swedish and Sapmi are similar to Chinese and Tibetan. But Chinese treat Tibetans much better for education priority. Sapmi in Sweden is just like slaves.

[@esaykamusic519]

I’ve just started learning about Sami history. It’s fascinating but also extremely sad. Its history is a true reflection of how horrible the world is and how it views spiritual belief systems and traditions. What’s even more of a shame is that in the U.K we’d never even been taught that Sami people existed and if it hadn’t have been for me discovering their beautiful music then I’d probably never have discovered them. My thoughts go to all the people who have lived through the injustices and I commend the strength of you all. 🤍

[@barefootfiona]

Hey :) are you British? If so, are you aware of the Highland Clearances and cleansing of Gaelic-speaking people? You’re so right that it’s a shame we don’t get taught about Sami people but I think it’s even more of a shame that people in the UK are not broadly taught about how the English and some wealthy landowning Scots abused the indigenous people of Scotland in a similar way. Tragically it was just an even more effective ethnic cleaning program in that it has been even more widely forgotten than the oppression of the Sami. If you’d like to learn more, I suggest the videos by Bruce Fummey here on KZbin, or books by John Prebble/James Hunter/T Devine.

[@ZetaxDante]

@@barefootfiona most of these people in differents country the indigenous was there before, Europe or another country arrives starts creat new beliefs and destroying they live been, most bizzarre, they not had problems with same sicks

[@erikc6860]

My grandmother was Sami … PROUD to have Sami blood in my veins!

[@edbrophy4602]

Sami Blood was so much different than a typical movie about hate and culture. Maj-Doris Rimp who played the part of Christina actually lived with Laplanders. Obviously, this girl's character as portrayed in the movie came from being raised as a Laplander and that is where she got her education from--because" there is no university like adversity"("school of hard knocks"). What is striking is that unlike typical Swedes or Sami People, Elle Marja understands the need that all people should acculturate themselves to the cultures and values of other people who have different than you--but on your own terms! Why?:Because: "If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." ~S.I. Hayakawa As i watched people talking about "Yoiking" (Sami music) I went to YouuTbe and listened to "Yoik of the Wind." If you were way up in the mountains in the wilderness this is the feeling you would express. The ending of this movie really floored me too and wrapped up the whole picture and expressed the character and moral of the story in that woman's finale.

[@BigDaddyMacc]

tbh it hits home to anyone that is of color. this is a great movie! its disgusting how the nordic countrys disciminated Sami people.

[@AmaliaGranath]

Dont listen to some people here! The Sami are one of the world's indigenous peoples, one of several thousand indigenous peoples around the world. Common to indigenous peoples (or indigenous peoples) is that they lived in the same place throughout history before the countries were invaded or colonized. They have their own culture, their own language and their own customs that differ from society around. The Sami lived in Scandinavia long before national borders were drawn up.

[@AmaliaGranath]

Samis is indigenous in the north part of Sweden but not in the south.

[@andrewlove3686]

Sami = 90% indigenous european + 10% east Asian mongoloid. They are less "native" than their neighbors.

[@fr0zty86]

hail! no dirsrespect, you and your ancestors is why i am here, and also others. seeking your wisdom seeek the source?

[@AmaliaGranath]

Check our sources samis are indigenous people.

[@Lesserevill]

We are NOT related to Mongolians my dude. I am sámi. Live in sapmi. Let me show you a little research. “ somewhere much closer to their current home. In very recent studies, some overwhelming new evidence has challenged the myth of the Finns and the Sámi as having a strictly Asian origin. Extensive genetic testing has helped put an end to the false conclusions that came from biased studies, based on everything from tooth size to skull shape. [8] With modern technology, it now appears that the Finns and the Sámi may have originated from an “old population in Europe which diverged from other European populations prior to subsequent linguistic and cultural diversification.” [9] Genetic testing has shown that the Finns and the Sámi are “phenotypically and genetically typical Europeans.” [10] The Sámi, as well of the Finns, are a very heterogeneous group of people who display a wide range of physical features. While there are some that feature darker Mongoloid-like characteristics, there are others who display very light colored pigments in their skin and hair. While this is somewhat a result of natural selection that has allowed for adaptation to an environment with very low ultraviolet radiation, light pigments, like the Y chromosomal polymorphisms, are a result of a founding effect, not sexual selection, as it was once thought of in the past.” Read before you mistress information that you just heard around the dumb vines.

[@katjaisaksen1382]

This looks like a great movie, but the comment about white society isn't quite right. It's about ethnicity, not skin colour. Subtle difference and exactly the same in practice but still. Sami people are as fair skinned as any other Scandinavians. But they have a different ancestry, language and culture than mainstream Scandinavian society and this caused them to be persecuted. There are stories about people who assimilated so well that their children and grandchildren had no idea they were Sami until recently. I would definitely like to see this movie.

[@ddootzles]

Exactly. It's like the First Nations people in commonwealth countries---Sami were targetted for not being "civilized" and such other things other Natives were targetted for.

[@alexanderalexander1495]

No, they are not as "fair-skinned" and skincolor isn't important. Most people from Europe to North Africa and the Middle East have the same skincolor, it's more about the facial features and bone-structure.

[@madziecake2954]

I can speak to that. My family was assimilated so well that I had no idea I was Sami until just this year. The Finnish residential schools completely stripped my family of their identity

[@proxyboxy7987]

Its 2021 i hope people who discovered they have sami ancestry i hope you feel awesome about it and do the research!

[@proxyboxy7987]

@Samí Warrior Dont worry most snowflakes live in Stockholm and i call them assholes , how i know well i live here! I love Sami culture and stay Sami!

[@alvegutt42]

its sad, many people dont know if they're sami or how much. my great grandmother knew she was sami, and my entire mothers family is from that area, so I'm estimating I'm between 40-12% sami

[@jonassmith6075]

Same. Half my family refuse to see themselves as samis. Where are your family from?

[@HackersSun]

me too? I think I'm 25% not too sure heard that they had memorize entire epics by ear I think that's why I have good auditory learning ^_^;

[@aylazelanagrebiel3210]

I’m 50% Saämi, my gramma is 85%, my mother is 60% as there’s some on her father’s side as well as Native American. I had my DNA run and got my numbers that way. Weird how genetics works. I’ve had a lot of racism on one side of the family, when I found this out and was also on ancestry.

[@jonassmith6075]

@@aylazelanagrebiel3210 your father is also sámi then, right?

[@feypeksoylu9509]

I'm so sorry this has actually happened on our earth. It broke my heart. I'm still learning about the sami culture and it enriched my life. I came across maxida marak which started my learning journey. Sending lots of love from Australia, from someone of mixed ethnicity. Bless your culture.

[@ThatBigFail]

A lot of closet-racists in the comment talking about how bad the movie is, because "racism against Sami people are non-existing and never has existed".

[@pussypence2247]

A lot of American blacks think any culture that looks white is somehow less legitimate or doesn't face hardship. That type of thought process is mostly from America though.

[@najahrasheedahmusic]

@@pussypence2247 not all...

[@toddharig8142]

Yeah, its a classic...

[@marsneedstowels]

@@pussypence2247 Oh yes I recall the ancient American divide between the blacks and the Saami people. I'm glad you could shed some light on it.

[@Emerald_Knight]

Don't listen to the SJWS their Racist themselves.

[@UlvNord789]

I'm American with Celtic/Norwegian on my dads side and Sàmi/Russian on my moms. I may have been born in American but my bloodline matters a lot to me. Growing up alone and distant parents, i feel like i can relate and I'd like to see this movie!

[@roneb64]

It's amazing to me to read these comments and realize just how pervasive racism and prejudice is in Northern Eurpoe to this day. A lot of people posting are clinging to outdated research that was incredibly bias and has been thoroughly disproven by modern genome testing and modern linguistic study (Looking at you Rob Gorman). The Sami language is nowhere close to being Mongolian. The Mongolian language is actually more closely related to Korean and Japanese. And modern DNA studies disprove the Sami Mongloid connection. To those posting research that Scandanivians are the earliest Europeans, learn to read. The research demonstrates that the Germanic Scandinavian population shows the genetic markers of being the earliest Europeans and maintained them as a fairly homogenous group. It does not mean that locationally they suddenly sprouted up in what is modern day Scandinavia before anyone else. It merely means their genetics most closely matches the markers we have for what science considers "European". Yes they may havearrived in southern Sweden before the Sami arrive in the north, but it is wiely accepted that the Sami were the original cultural population in northern Scandinvia. In any case, none of these arguments are particularly important, as the movie appears to be about the prejudice and racism faced by the Sami people in a historical context, which is a fact and not open for debate. Whether you want to say they were indigenous or not, it can NOT be argued that they weren't persecuted.

[@jk8557]

Germanic people lived in Scandinavia and Finland before Uralics came there.

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

The Germanic and Uralic people were actually contemporaries in Scandinavia at some point, but they inhabited different parts. Whereas the Sámi, as Uralic people, are native to the Ural Mountains, they eventually inhabited the north of Scandinavia at the same time when the native Scandinavian Germanic people mostly still inhabited more southern parts of Scandinavia (and the plains of northern Germany). Don't make the mistake of not realizing that *all* people have so-called native roots in a certain place, and *all* people's ancestors migrated into that place from somewhere else, all the way back to humanity's roots and even back to the first multi-celled organism. So while it's true that the Sámi aren't the first people who are native to Scandinavia, they have moved there legitimately; they didn't invade the north of Scandinavia and didn't take any lands away from Germanic people by force. On the contrary, the Germanic people were mostly peaceful neighbors to the Sámi as they traded with one another and neither bothered the other. Obviously, that unfortunately changed after the Germanic people were poisoned by Christianization and industrialization and the sentiment of "modernizing" and assimilating the Sámi into "civilized, Christian society" grew strong. That was a mistake. They have every right to be in the north of Scandinavia and to live according to their archaic way of life. In fact, I'd say us Germanic people should be inspired to return to our original, native cultural roots as well and combine the healthy things of our ancient way of life with the best things modern society and technology has to offer.

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

I also usually emphasize that Sámi people are Uralic because a ton of people here seem confused about their exact ethnic-cultural-linguistic affiliation, relatedness to other people and historical origins. Uralic people originate in the Ural Mountains region in modern-day Russia - which forms a natural barrier between Europe and Asia. As such, Sámi (and all Uralic people) are not related to Mongolians, nor Turkic peoples on an ethnic level (ultimately, we're all related on an evolutionary level of course). By saying Sámi are not white, people are attempting to imply they're not Indo-European, which is true. However, "white" isn't an ethnic or even racial designation. It only refers to skin pigmentation or skin type. In fact, most (if not all) Sámi - like other Uralic people - have light skin because they evolved in northern regions of Eurasia. Sámi in particular also had significant admixture with Germanic peoples after arriving on the Scandinavian peninsula, giving them even lighter skin, hair and eye types. Therefore, using the term "white" isn't very accurate in distinguishing them. It's better to say they are Uralic, thus not Indo-European and originally a Eurasian people who have their origins outside of Europe, and have relatively recently settled in Europe.

[@alexanderalexander1495]

You're right on alot of things, but saying Samis and Finns have no Mongoloid(not Mongol) connection is wrong and can't be confirmed by any study, researcher or testing. Finns and Samis are originally non-Europeans.

[@peterpeter3654]

@@ingwiafraujaz3126 False. The Sami culture and people emerged in Scandinavia 2500-2000 years ago and have lived there ever since. Saying the Sami came from Mongolia is the same as saying germanic peoples came from Africa because all humans came from there.

[@lenalee5939]

Beautiful film. Identity is woven into every scene

[@facelesscaseless3490]

I found out my great grandparents where finnish sámi that fled to the states so I'm trunna learn as much as I can about my heritage

[@jjhofstra5956]

A VERY special movie.....top quality. All of the acting was great, but i have to say, that, although the lead actress was flawless, the girl who played her younger sister was a Scene-Stealer!!

[@tma78]

i watched a short documentary on sami students who travelled and lived in a northern part of russia to study, then had to go back to live in the villages they came from. most of the students weren't looking forward to it. was a good documentary. i didnt even know about sami people until i watched a vid here on yt about native people olympic games they had held in the u.s. hosted by american indians. they had all the native peoples then the sami came up and i had to pause it to google them. pretty cool, i never knew of them prior to seeing that.

[@theuralictribes5689]

I'm a Hungarian, and when my fellow member of our tribes suffers, I suffer too along with them :/ :(

[@vivecamotsieloa4634]

I miss my sami friend wo brought me into their 'sphere'. As a black person in Sweden you just feel at home when you are surrounded by Sami who acknowledge and feel proud of their culture and heritage.

[@BluemoonAG]

suddenly everyone is an historian and scientist in these comments...

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

Some of us truly are one or both of those things.

[@BluemoonAG]

@Schuttig Maske im talking about the racists in the comments who think they know everything

[@Emerald_Knight]

@@BluemoonAG SJWS don't believe white people can be racist to other white people.

[@katherinesatterlee4761]

​@@ingwiafraujaz3126you have no PHD so stop lying. It makes you look weak and pathetic.

[@katherinesatterlee4761]

​@@BluemoonAGI think that's what he was trying to point out before you reported him child.

[@Federation1323]

Saami 😍😍😍😍😍 Don't touch them! Love them!

[@backyardbiologist6468]

As a Sámi man, I really appreciate your comment.

[@eliseang86]

@@backyardbiologist6468 same😭

[@samithelegendarygamer1211]

wtf love who me

[@StickyKeys187]

you look asian@@samithelegendarygamer1211

[@katherinesatterlee4761]

​@@samithelegendarygamer1211 Who you? Skinny asian kid😂😂

[@brianmonday639]

Excellent movie.

[@duanestenquist1380]

I'm 9% Sami. Proud of my heritage.

[@Ephesians5-14]

Hi! I'm Norwegian and Swedish heritage (American) and wonder if a genetic test tells if one has Sami lineage. Do you know?. Very interesting 🙏

[@LanceCorpsman]

Go back to Vietnam

[@Xeelee844]

Errrr what

[@eliseang86]

Hi cousin, I'm half Sámi 👋

[@samithelegendarygamer1211]

i am 1000000000000000000000000000% Sami so no mess with

[@rebeccashawn9126]

My dads family was Sami/Swedish mix, my kids will know their heritage one day as well.

[@firyalazeera5396]

Where can I watch this film?

[@domocracydestroyer8219]

Looks like an interesting film. I should watch this one day. Is it on any available streaming service?

[@mariadelourdesurbina2323]

Jag tror att det är mycket intressant. Jag vet inte om hela Sverige skulle titta den filmen.

[@ddootzles]

Bruh people commenting about racism are so wrong---it's about the abuse and tribulations every single First Nation (or a group classified as Native) to a region/country were/are treated. They're told they're uncivilized, dirty, etc. This isn't about skin colour; it's about culture

[@albinjohnsson2511]

They are literally measuring their craniums in the video to examine racial differences lol. It was about culture, yes, but it was also very much about "race". There was even a now-infamous institution in Uppsala, the city she goes to, called The State Institute for Race-Biology, with the stated purpose of studying eugenics and human genetics. The head of the institute explicitly wrote that non-Nordics like jews and Sami people were genetically inferior and that race mixing had to be avoided at all costs. So no, you are, empirically, wrong. It was about as racist as it gets. Racism is not limited to white-black. Those are very modern and American concepts. Racism transcends both the US and modernity.

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

In this case, it's about abuse and racism towards "less civilized" tribes; not necessarily towards a "First Nation" group, since the Sámi aren't the first/native ethnic group in the Scandinavian peninsula. The Germanic and Uralic people were actually contemporaries in Scandinavia at some point, but they inhabited different parts. Whereas the Sámi, as Uralic people, are native to the Ural Mountains, they eventually inhabited the north of Scandinavia at the same time when the native Scandinavian Germanic people mostly still inhabited more southern parts of Scandinavia (and the plains of northern Germany). Don't make the mistake of not realizing that *all* people have so-called native roots in a certain place, and *all* people's ancestors migrated into that place from somewhere else, all the way back to humanity's roots and even back to the first multi-celled organism. So while it's true that the Sámi aren't the first people who are native to Scandinavia, they have moved there legitimately; they didn't invade the north of Scandinavia and didn't take any lands away from Germanic people by force. On the contrary, the Germanic people were mostly peaceful neighbors to the Sámi as they traded with one another and neither bothered the other. Obviously, that unfortunately changed after the Germanic people were poisoned by Christianization and industrialization and the sentiment of "modernizing" and assimilating the Sámi into "civilized, Christian society" grew strong. That was a mistake. They have every right to be in the north of Scandinavia and to live according to their archaic way of life. In fact, I'd say us Germanic people should be inspired to return to our original, native cultural roots as well and combine the healthy things of our ancient way of life with the best things modern society and technology has to offer.

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

I said that Sámi people are Uralic because a ton of people here seem confused about their exact ethnic-cultural-linguistic affiliation, relatedness to other people and historical origins. Like I said, Uralic people originate in the Ural Mountains region in modern-day Russia - which forms a natural barrier between Europe and Asia. As such, Sámi (and all Uralic people) are not related to Mongolians, nor Turkic peoples on an ethnic level (ultimately, we're all related on an evolutionary level of course). By saying Sámi are not white, people are attempting to imply they're not Indo-European, which is true. However, "white" isn't an ethnic or even racial designation. It only refers to skin pigmentation or skin type. In fact, most (if not all) Sámi - like other Uralic people - have light skin because they evolved in northern regions of Eurasia. Sámi in particular also had significant admixture with Germanic peoples after arriving on the Scandinavian peninsula, giving them even lighter skin, hair and eye types. Therefore, using the term "white" isn't very accurate in distinguishing them. It's better to say they are Uralic, thus not Indo-European and originally a Eurasian people who have their origins outside of Europe, and have relatively recently settled in Europe.

[@amirap5671]

Please do not use PRIMITIVE word

[@peterpeter3654]

@@ingwiafraujaz3126 False. The Sami culture and people emerged in Scandinavia 2500-2000 years ago and have lived there ever since. Saying the Sami came from Mongolia is the same as saying germanic peoples came from Africa because all humans came from there.

[@saarinenj1]

Where do we see this movie?

[@edbrophy4602]

Sami Blood was so much different than a typical movie about hate and culture. Maj-Doris Rimp who played the part of Christina actually lived with Laplanders. Obviously, this girl's character as portrayed in the movie came from being raised as a Laplander and that is where she got her education from--because" there is no university like adversity"("school of hard knocks"). What is striking is that unlike typical Swedes or Sami People, Elle Marja understands the need that all people should acculturate themselves to the cultures and values of other people who have different than you--but on your own terms! Why?:Because: "If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it." ~S.I. Hayakawa As i watched people talking about "Yoiking" (Sami music) I went to YouuTbe and listened to "Yoik of the Wind." If you were way up in the mountains in the wilderness this is the feeling you would express. The ending of this movie really floored me too and wrapped up the whole picture and expressed the character and moral of the story in that woman's finale.

[@GrievingForGrace]

Where can I watch this movie? KZbin has it, but then says "not available"

[@rociovelazquez735]

I came across this movie on netflix, so maybe there

[@carriehunter9902]

It's on MUBI right now

[@editedbylaurel]

Amazon Prime

[@PognasMusic]

Hoopla for free

[@hannes0000]

North remembers

[@yutanarkavich]

"Sweden was a great place before immigrants."

[@BigDaddyMacc]

11/10 movie

[@poder80]

Such a sad movie : (

[@SuperDave30]

I watch this movie on Tubi this absolutely great Drama and sad about teenage Sami girl just want have normal life like regular teenagers.

[@Cybercygni]

Why do football teams not kneel for the Sami people?

[@turkishlidyal3266]

Tarihi gerçeklerle yüzleşmek güzel. İzleyince çok üzüldüm. Niklas fazla genç ve aptalca davrandı. Onu bu kadar seven bir kadınla evlenmek tüm hayatı için kutsama olacaktı.

[@gdansk12349]

I love Swedish people

[@КанатТемирханов-у7ь]

Idiotic comment

[@nereyekadarneyeyarar6069]

She's so cute ;)

[@samithelegendarygamer1211]

WtF man my name Sami they copied my name cause i got 500 views they copied my name man

[@maddie1446-c6w]

Jag är sami,eskemå,norce och 12 % Nord America 😅😅

[@adrulpavel9968]

Hii

[@amandabeaty1492]

Oh god. Were they trying to whitewash her?

[@tompa-sweden]

😥

[@APheonixPretense8]

Questionable Sami aren’t questionable

[@curtisnewton895]

meh

[@soos9000]

I watched this and niklas and elle had sx i watch in class tooday

[@apostolosmaragkos7228]

Sweden 🇸🇪 vs Laponia 🔴🔵

[@marwahussein666]

Sápmi *

[@josephsileba]

Greta Thunberg

[@bodysnatcher8122]

As if being sweed is a bad thing. Same on you. Shame on you. SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT BELIEVING IN SWEEDEN

[@ospreybird]

:-)

[@bodysnatcher8122]

Shame on you for not believing in the culture of swedish heritage

[@67thCloneSquadron]

SAMIS ARE MY FAV ASIANS

[@david82633]

@@SgfGustafsson mongolians, really?

[@SgfGustafsson]

@@david82633 Why do you resent that? Do you think Mongolians are bad?

[@david82633]

@@SgfGustafsson no, I don't, but the idea that the Sami originated in mongolia is not based on good evidence, and we definitely aren't mongolians as we have been living in Scandinavia for millenias, at least 2000 years. Can just aswell call us african, cause we did all start out there first. Also, Mongolia is often brought up together with the race biology term "mongoloid race", which is seen as very racist today.

[@Oddn7751]

Wouldn't really call them Asian. They've lived in Europe for millennia

[@fructosecornsyrup5759]

🤨

[@samitheemperor8044]

I came because of my name

[@hangbuikzwijntje1642]

what is sami?? the girl on video looks like regular white person from uk or anywhere else. i dont know how can I get here, I was just looking for slavic folk music lol.

[@kallehakone7307]

sami people are indigenous people from sapmi

[@karib8489]

Sami people are indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. As a norwegian I can say we didn't treat them any good back in the day (forced sterilization, erasing culture etc.) They weren't considered people by the southerners, because they weren't christian. So it's less about race and more about culture

[@eliseang86]

We look very white/european because of how our appearance evolved over thousands of years from dark skin in the begining. We got very light because of living in the Arctic circle where there is much sun and cold. We have different ethnical backgrounds and culture.

[@david82633]

@@SgfGustafsson Do you believe that I, a sami, is inferior to you?

[@SgfGustafsson]

@@david82633 I am talking about civilization wise. If Samis had a stronger civilization they would have dominated.

[@tamilsuvinth86]

Love from Tamil Elam (Tamilnadu )❤❤❤❤

[@AliMozafari-wm9zw]

Did the Mongol Soldiers occupied Scandinavian countries ?? I have seen alot of Mongolaid Swedish when i was in Sweden.. but Sami are the real owner or indigenous people of Scandinavia.

[@eatinsomtin9984]

The Sami really need BBC

[@hertzwave8001]

you dont need the BBC to report on them

[@eatinsomtin9984]

@@hertzwave8001 I was talking about the the other type