(1) The vast majority are ethnic Swedes, with minorities of Laplanders , Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Norwegians, and Danes, and, in the late twentieth century, immigrants from southeastern Europe and the Middle East.(2) The practices for doing this vary very little all over the world - amongst the Australian Aborigines, the Laplanders in northern Russia, the Inuit and American Indians, or the native Shamans in the Amazon jungles.(3) The landscape - mainly lakes and forests stretching to the horizon - becomes carpeted with wildflowers and the Laplanders themselves, starved of sun during the winter, spend every possible moment they can out of doors.(4) What do you say when a Laplander calls and asks you to retrieve his snow-scooter from the bottom of a lake?(5) ‘In summer, we fish and make love,’ one Laplander deadpanned.
