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.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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