r/Norway • u/Mycop3377 • 2d ago
Other Looking for Sami people
Hey guys! I’m currently searching for someone from the Sámi people (Northern Europe – Norway, Sweden, Finland or Russia). I’m very interested in indigenous cultures and would like to hear more about Sámi traditions, lifestyle, and how things are for young people today. I’m 16 and from Kazakhstan. If you are Sámi or know someone who is, I’d be happy to chat!
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u/Saxnot1201 2d ago
Indigenous cultures? So actually most peoples in Europe are indigenous. The Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Germans/North and West and Central German, Northern Dutch are virtually all indigenous peoples, all Germanic ethnic groups whose origins were in southern Denmark and northern Germany, which then spread north and south.
So actually all Celtic and Germanic peoples in their country are indigenous, just like Slavs.
You can speak more about indigenous peoples if it's like in America, where everyone else immigrated and basically occupied the country and the real natives are in the minority. They are marked as indigenous so that you always know that they were originally there and not the others. But that doesn't suit most Europeans because this is all their natural land on which they have lived for several generations.
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u/kapitein-kwak 2d ago
I assume it will work better if you first read about the same traditions and culture and then return here with the specific question you have.
People tend to be more invested once you display that you have some knowledge about them