Talk:Assimilation of the Sámi

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Please help me build out this article by adding more background info and details on current developments and new research being uncovered, especially if you can use sources in Scandinavian languages rather than just English (my primary source material) with quality citations. DivineReality (talk) 00:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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The subject is not widely described as a genocide, even the sources you cite here say that it is not referred to as a genocide "but might be called a soft cultural genocide". How about the title Forced assimilation of the Sámi? – Thjarkur (talk) 10:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)


 * That could also work. But some of the Sami people themselves do call it a genocide. I'd have to poke around sources in Scandinavian languages to really see I think, English is quite lacking. I could use help with deeper research into the topic. I've read that Norway and Sweden were put on a list of "genocidal countries" in the latter 1900s because of this, so apparently it has been called a genocide before. We'd have to do more research into the topic. But either title works. I just don't want to make a rushed decision without more clarity on the matter.DivineReality (talk) 13:52, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It is the same for Norwegian and Swedish sources, with only a handful of sources (no high-quality sources) saying "Norwegianization may be looked at as a cultural genocide", with these terms clearly being shown as being provocative and uncommon. – Thjarkur (talk) 19:35, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * This article has several signs of not being a summary of available quality sources but being written from snippets of a Google search. This severely prevents the article from being WP:NEUTRAL and WP:DUE, and it is far too much of a WP:SYNTH. I think it might be good to split this article up into Norwegianization and Swedish assimilation of the Sámi. You see that there is a single representative of a Sami organization that mentions sterilization in a Politico interview, but there is seemingly only one other source that makes any mention of this in relation to the Sami. – Thjarkur (talk) 19:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've redirected the article to the section on the main article due the above problems, it would have needed a complete rewrite to actually reflect the literature. – Thjarkur (talk) 21:56, 7 September 2020 (UTC)