Sorry Wiltsu xD. I pretty much had a good rant after I saw your post
. Yeah they probably teach in schools many kind of stuff... Sorry I try to explain why this is sensitive subject for me. And for the record I am not pissed off at them as a whole. Only a small extremist minority inside a minority
(If sami people even are a minority in Enontekiö and yes they are divided in two camps when it comes to the politics of the area)
Making ILO- contract official is against our constitution. The right to own something (in this case land) and equality. You see, after the war locals were given land by the government (time before word sami and before any race thinking), it was given to the farmers to have fields and so on (hunting & fishing too) to settle population again. There was different kind of people given these ownerships. Many many families, and amongst them for sure people who are nowadays considered as sami people and they settled down to live in a house and farm some land etc.
Today some of the people in sami community think that they have the real and original right to use these old lands which have been owned by the legal heir of the generation which once got it from the government. ILO ratification would hurt the land owner's rights if it is accepted and sami register people could do as they please. (Did I mention that there is also a lot of people who are sami but not in the register and a lot of people who are DEFINETLY NOT sami but are in the register?) Maybe even all rights removed whatsoever and all that caretaking of generations is lost. There is also people who are in sami register who oppose against these kind of things. Why? You might ask. Question is simple: they own some land too ;). And ofc a big majority of sami community is just normal everyday people who don't give a shit about the subject. I don't hate them or anything and I don't have any problems with them. I even took few courses of sami languague when I was young. The noisy minority is the problem here.
(Edit: noticed that I wrote "majority" when I was supposed to write "minority". Fix'd)
You have seen sami people in some place? They get really good money for entertraining tourists. I have one friend doing that, it is pure theatre sometimes
. Nice thing though. When it comes to sami museums... Atleast in Hetta, it has so biased view of the history that it makes me sick. It is a part of the lobbying mechanism which aims for ILO ratification and other such goals. As long as it is opposed strongly and the government goes by the book and sticks up with the constitution we should not have any problems... If not, then there is going to be BIG problems.
That is what I mean with "sami propaganda". I would rather talk about the original northern population as "Lapps". It is not dividing people to weirdass "races" or anything because the culture was never based on that kind of thinking to begin with and everyone lived in peace with each other.
And the knife is "leuku" goddamit! xD.
I rest my case. Nothing personal Wiltsu. Hope you understand
. I didnt mean to attack you either.
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