Why? The movie did a great job portraying the discrimination that Lapp or Sami people faced in 1930s Sweden, but the ethnic/racial component went too far. Swedes are Germanic peoples. So, in attempting to dramatize the discrimination the suggestion was that Lapp people were darker complexioned and the majority of other Swedes were blond and blue eyed. Absolute nonsense. The Germanic peoples were one tribe of people who came into Europe from Asia during the early Christian Era. Also, at roughly the same time from potentially the same areas of Asia came Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples. The Finns, Latvians, Estonians, and Hungarians are Finno-Ugric. The Celtic peoples came into Europe about a thousand years earlier, probably from roughly the same areas as the latter migrants. Lithuanians, Albanians, and the Basque are perhaps the only peoples in Europe that descend from the original peoples - Stone and Metal Age peoples, such as the makers of Stonehenge were. And Europeans are from a series of migrations. One can find fairer people in southern Europe and darker complexioned people in northern Europe. But one thing is fairly clear, the Mongols came less than a thousand years ago through central Europe. They probably did not extend very far north or very far south. So, the whole idea that Lapp people are somehow darker complexioned than other Swedes is laughable. That aside, what really was at the basis of this movie, and should have been made clear was that the Lapp were, and maybe still are, a marginalized group. Comparable peoples in the United States would be mountain and hill peoples, the Cajuns, French Canadians, and various traditional religious groups. The most famous example of nonracial prejudice in the US was highlighted in the movie and film The Grapes of Wrath - where Oklahomans were discriminated against solely for coming to California in the expectations of work. That would be enough of a story regarding the Lapp's relations with the mainstream Swedes of the 1930s. The kookiness of so called "national socialism" - where because Lapps were traditional peoples who lives isolated and herded reindeer was made very clear. There was nothing wrong with the movie itself. It did an excellent job portraying the plights of the Sami woman and her people. But sadly, her boyfriend is portrayed as blond. All but one Lapp school girl were non blond. The girls at the elite academy she got into were all blond and she was not. That seemed pretty ridiculous.
Review of Sami Blood
