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These are pictures of a Sami I once met in northern Norway: of course, I won’t tell his name to preserve his privacy.
He has a distinctive Siberian look; He could pass for a Nenets without any problem. In New Zealand, people would even think he has some Maori blood.
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I also remember a funny story, I used to work as a tour guide in Norway for cruise passengers. Most of my colleagues were foreigners without any previous experience of Norway. Some of them were ashamed to tell the tourists that they weren’t native Norwegians, so they pretended to be locals. One of the new guides was half-German, half-Malagasy (from Madagascar), he had a dark complexion and black and curly hair (he looked more or less like a Sudanese Arab), and he always told the tourists he was a Sami ! The worst is that everyone believed him.
Another guide was a Thai woman. One day, one of the passengers asked her if she was a Sami too. What a lack of knowledge !
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