i use to say i'm sami because i don't want to be norwegian. unfortunately both my parents are norwegian, so it's impossible for me to not be norwegian. my father's sami, but refuses to be anything other than norwegian. somehow ethnicity's become very fluid here up north, you can't know what anyone is really. even sami isn't just one ethnicity, but it is a different culture. if you're part of the culture, you're sami, unless you don't want to be sami, then you're not