| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to examine the sami identity and self-perception. To understand the self-perception and the construction of sami identity, interviews with members of the sami community in Sweden been concluded. The interview question has been based on the film “Sameblod†released in 2017 by Amanda Kernell. Sameblod is about a teenage girl, Elle-Marja, who struggles with the structural racism the Swedish state caused them during the beginning of the 19th century. The movie is portraying many of the topics considering sami self-perception and identity and was there for a good approach to discuss the matters and produce answers that would be relevant for the researching purpose. The results turned out to be categorized in that the 1. Sami’s identify strongly with their history and therefore the representation of the Swedish history turned out to be valuable for the construction of the sami identity. But the representation of the history could intensify the already undermined sami status caused by the oppression. 2. The sami pride was significantly important for the self-perception. Sameblod dose miss some crucial parts of the sami culture as well as the sami pride. This leads to sami misrepresentation, which damages the self-perception and can lead to undermined cultural heritage, as well as concecuenses of the preception for a non-sami.Â
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