Sorry HG, I hadn't heard of Seppo and forgot you'd mentioned it. I checked Google.com and found google.com <You're probably wondering what the heck a "seppo" is. I wondered for a very long time, because that's what people were calling me in Australia. Everywhere I went, someone would make a backhanded reference to my being a "seppo." Finally one of my scuba instructors took pity on me and set me straight. "Seppo" is an Australian slang term for an American (of course.) It works like this: "Seppo" is short for "septic tank," which rhymes with "Yank," which is short for "Yankee," of course meaning "American."
They were all calling me a sewer.
I got used to it. Now it's the name of my web site.>
Being a Wog wouldn't rate as highly as being a Seppo, so in Oz, you'd be a Seppo [because you must have shown more Yank characteristics than Wog].
One of the interesting things about Hyphenated-Americans is that they think they have their own culture. They don't of course. They are all just Seppos. You mentioned that your ideas and differences from others in this stream probably stem from your ethnicity. Unfortunately for that theory, ideas don't derive from ethnicity [in the DNA sense though maybe you are meaning it simply in a cultural sense - most people use words in the Alice in Wonderland way these days where they mean what they say they mean].
It's hard to know from what you wrote why your offspring didn't make friends in the poncey school. I doubt if it was your Woggishness [which you don't seem to have much of, other than in the Seppo-hyphenated sense].
Contrary to what the average Seppo thinks [I do like that name!] everyone on earth isn't wanting to move to the USA. Heck, there are crowds of them wanting to come and live in The Peoples Republic of Aotearoa and some would even live in Helengrad [Wellington, renamed after our socialist Prime Minister, Helen Clark - we have sheilas running the country here now, from the Queen on down, judiciary, Governor General, etc..].
Incidentally, we got a new USA ambassador the other day and he seems a decent joker. [That's local slang for a good bloke]. usembassy.state.gov
Other stuff about the embassy here: usembassy.state.gov
One of the things the USA will have to try to get its head around is a free trade agreement. The USA's protectionist policies are out of step with the trend around the world to free trade. Cowering behind trade protection against The People's Republic of Aotearoa is not befitting the greatest country the world has ever seen [Seppoland].
Mqurice
PS: Yes, there was quite a naming of places after places back in the old country. They did the same in the USA. Check it out! Heck, even the name New Zealand is after Zealand in Nederlands.
Incidentally, Seppo, deriving from Septic Tank, rhyming with Yank, is a Cockney Rhyming Slang, which again shows the throwback of Oioiland to the Pommy origins. Apple and pears for example, means stairs...I'm sure Google has lots of examples if you look. Sure enough... aldertons.com |
