Tex089 t1_j1w2v4j wrote
Reply to comment by LateInTheAfternoon in If the Sami are considered the only indigenous group left in the European Union, what are the Karelians? by Theworldsfuckedm8
I appreciate the answer. I'm still not sure I understand the classification. If all European peoples arrived via migration, and both peoples settled in their respective areas at the same time, then by that criteria either both or neither would be considered indigenous Europeans, with later colonization only affecting the indigenous status of that specific area.
Apologies if that doesn't make sense, or seems confrontational. I'm ignorant on this subject and just trying to understand.
DeaththeEternal t1_j25tamc wrote
It's more of a set of assumptions about 'Old Europe', of which the Basques and the Sami are the last remaining traces, versus the Indo-European versions. The various Indo-European cultures that were ancestral to modern cultures wrote about these cultures around them or they left linguistic traces in substrates and perhaps in the ways that Indo-European languages evolved and why they evolved in those ways.
It's also the same thing as why Arabs are Indigenous to the Middle East after conquering it in the 600s but the Greeks they replaced weren't in spite of being there for 1,000 years prior to that. The concept does have some semantic wordplay and double standards attached IRL.
Tex089 t1_j25ww5d wrote
I appreciate the in-depth answer. Thank you.
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