Tuesday, February 06, 2007

SAMI or what the Whites labelled as LAPPS

Today is a special day for Sami folk. The Sami have their own national day in the Nordic regions. The trouble is so few really care. Sami folk, the Lapps in English language and colonialism language, celebrate today 90 years of struggle against colonialism. The term Lapp is associated with "outcast" and this term gives away the main game. Long live the outcasts I say.
The main problem for European Union, United Nations and Nordic politics is to come to grips with one of the main differences between traditional Sami ways and capitalism ways based upon private ownership . Sami have no land ownership by tradition. This hurts those that build up their politics around a basic assumption that everything is owned by somebody somewhere somehow.
So what the Finnish government "gives" the Sami folk is a kind of nice cultural face and package. The Finnish parliament : " required that in the name of cultural autonomy the linguistic and cultural rights of the Sami should be safeguarded to a sufficient degree. " ( Parliamentary statement October 1st 1993)

Who and what defines this "sufficient degree"? Ownership groups and capital and the politics that assumes this way to be god-like and beyond critique or reason.

5 comments:

Jose said...

And I was under the impression Finland was a country that respected the human rights.

As you say that "sufficient degree" implies a hypocritical thought.

zola a social thing said...

Indeed Jose : Finland is a fairly decent country in terms of human rights but there remain many big nasty things around too.

In fact Finnish "Lapps" are treated worse than Swedish or Norwegian "Lapps". Much still to do in Finland today.

Anonymous said...

There used to be a rock band playing in Glasgow.
They were called 'Sami and the Badgers'.
I wonder if there was a Nordic connection.
Perhaps, not.

zola a social thing said...

where the hell is this glasgow?

Anonymous said...

Glasgow is centre of the world if the Russkies decide to drop one.
You bastards are ok all you shred with Scotland was some of the Chernobyl fallout.
Do have a Whisky for me, or a Vartag.

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