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by bmelton
3085 days ago
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Coincidentally, in looking for Christmas movies for the holidays, I stumbled across "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale[1]". I won't go into spoilers, but a) it was an unexpectedly smart horror film , and b) seemed to be rooted in actual mythology. Of course, as I knew nothing of the Saami people of Lapland, I started delving into them, their associations with Santa and Christmas, etc., and learned that they've been treated with a great deal of disrespect[2], which actually help to put some parts of the movie in context. Particularly disturbing to me was this passage in the Wiki: The genetic makeup of Sami people has been extensively studied for as
long as such research has been in existence. Ethnographic photography
of the Sami began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century.[137]
This continued on into the 1920s and 1930s, when Sami were photographed
naked and anatomically measured by scientists, with the help of the
local police—sometimes at gunpoint—to collect data that would justify
their own racial theories.
[1] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people#Discrimination_aga... |
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