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The episode promoting a cruise line visit to Helsinki was released in 2018 & still shown on NBC, but uses the term Lapps more than Sami, for that indigenous ethnic minority.

This isn't recent PC/cancel culture. The most well-known Sami singer, the internationally-acclaimed, dynamic Marie Boin, refused to be in the 1994 Helsinki Olympics opening ceremony, because the references to Sami as child-like primitives with cute reindeer, & their exploitation similar to that of Native Americans, was offensive even then !

I did not realize that Eric Jones was the Grandson of American Legend Quincy Jones and Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe. I didn't even know that Quincy & the Prince were an item !

This 1929 U.S. film is probably not a source for the groundbreaking 1950 movie classic Rashomon, because the 2 Japanese short stories which Rashomon is based upon were written in 1915 and 1922, while Thru Different Eyes came out in 1929, and was based upon a prior U.S. stage play. The writer of the short stories, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, killed himself in 1927. His style was highly influential in Japan, and he's considered the father of the modern Japanese short story, comparable to Edgar Allen Poe's influence in English literature, and of a similarly dark nature. Several of Akutagawa's other stories were made into films in the U.S. and Japan. Rashomon director Akira Kurosawa combined Akutagawa's 2 unrelated short stories in Kurosawa's film, which first brought Japanese cinema to world acclaim.

David Stevens