What is the funniest question you've ever received when you tell people you're from NZ?

Question

whenever i tell people i'm from new zealand, i get:

"Do you have electricity there?"

"Oh...so you're Amish??"

"Are there sheep running around everywhere?"

"Do you use telephones?"

"Do you have internet connection?"

What do people say when you tell them you're from new zealand? (or any other odd country)

Answer 1

"G'day sheep shagger!!!"...that was actually shouted across the room as a daily greeting from people when I was in the UK!

Usually its sheep and Lord of the Rings, but All blacks occasionally......mainly this was AFTER they identified me as Australian AGAIN from my accent.....then tried to tell the difference between australia and new zealand....I was a teacher and in the end put up cool screen savers on my computer/ porjector so they can SEE the difference.

Actually I remember now the funniest thing was when a student asked me after a week or two after arriving....

"why are you white?"...she thought NZ was a tropical island ( like the majority of young brits).....so the logical thought was why was a white person living on a tropical island!!!!

Answer 2

Did you see them filming lord of the rings?

Answer 3

When I went to OZ for a month, I was asked if my whale bone pendant was made out of my grandmother's jawbone.  I was also asked if we lived in grass huts by an American soldier, and if we beat our men up.

The outer world must think we're a bunch of cannibals or something.

Answer 4

An American tourist asked a mate of mine(Who is a Maori) "where do we go to see the maori's"  he replied "They come out of the bush around tea time",   I think they where meaning a Marae?.

Answer 5

An oldie but a Goodie

where is New Zealand?

is New Zealand a state in Australia.

Answer 6

I was living at Waipu north of Auckland in 1996 when Mt Ruapehu had an eruption. I was TOLD by an American (who was still in America at the time) that the whole of the North Island had been blown apart by the eruption! I was like ... well where do you think I am.

Answer 7

-Do you have s*x with sheep?

-say "fish and chips" (this is one that no matter how long you live in Australia will never stop)

-Is a "kiwi" a Maori?

-O my god did you live down the road from the lord of the rings?

-Can you pull out of the netball tournament against Australia because you guys have the unfair advantage of having 2 men on your team- Van Dyk and Davu?

Answer 8

"Oh, do you know [insert name here]?" hehe like I'd know everyone in NZ!!

When I was living in Japan last year, people would say "Are you American?" and I'd say "NO! I'm from New Zealand" and they say "Ohhh, I've been to Australia!" haha, so annoying!

Answer 9

Say 'fish and chip'

Do you ride around on sheep?

Is it true there are more sheep in NZ than people?

What direction does the water go down the plug hole?

Do you eat Maoris? (I have honestly been asked this)

Why aren't you black? (Meaning why aren't I Maori if I'm from NZ, I have been asked this before too)

Were you in Lord Of The Rings?

And same as the person above; Do you know _____? (Expecting that I know every single person in NZ)

Answer 10

This is a bit off-question, but in the same league:

An American lady (don't you just love them with their loud voices, their big mouths, and their ability to talk without thinking), went up to a friend of mine, a Maori, and drawled "And how long have you been a Maori for?"

Answer 11

NZ has a kind of social complexity that you do not encounter in any other country.

There is a strong bullying culture at work environment especially towards foreigners.

It is a small isolated country. So what you think the major source of income is. Of course it is agriculture and tourism.The problem is because salaries are low most educated people leave for better income overseas. This creates a big problem.. As I said it is a small country.So what do you think people might feel when most young generation emigrate. Well they feel they are invaded by foreigner migrants especially Asians, Indians and others. For many years white people dominated the country and Maories were lower class citizens. When  the white young generation is emigrating the country, fear of losing the power and fear of losing the working class (age 16-45) can cause a hostile environment towards new comers….If you spend some time with them you will see how much they adore and admire themselves and their younger ones compared to other nationalities no matter where they are from…..This is a dominant culture…even if a kiwi commits a crime if the victim is not a main stream New Zealander the chances that lawyers and justice protect their own people is quiet high. Because they want to keep their people and stop them from leaving. This culture exists in all of them .Almost all of them…politicians, doctors, lawyers, taxi drivers, farmers…..almost all of them maybe because they want to teach them to value their country and stay….however because tourism is their biggest source of income over many many years of dealing with migrants and foreigners they know they need migrants for their money….I have never seen any other nationality in the world being able to rip off so skilfully as kiwis. They make a slave out of you. They make you work for free. Most skilled migrants are young, motivated, and energetic and have some saving. They come to NZ to make a better life. They spend some of their best years of life, the first five years after leaving their country to work hard to achieve nothing instead. I have seen many families break up; I have seen many of them get depressed. A lot of them leave NZ after a few years of putting up with abuse, some leave for Australia; some go back to their home country. Some of the migrants who have some kind of support network and can stand the abuse or work as self-employed may stay and instead the way they cope with this culture is they turn to be like their kiwi abusive mates. I have seen some of them start cheating, stealing and exploiting others to be able to mentally integrate into the society around them and of course some of them do none of these and stay the way they were but in a less motivated, depressed slavery mood. Ironically when foreigners get ripped off by kiwis they get blamed for not being careful. I have seen young rich Japanese students who get bashed and their money get stolen but instead they will get criticized of being careless. Kiwi students and young generation have this mentality that foreigners are rich, are pain free and they have their money because their mummy and daddy gives them their money and they do not work hard for it so they deserve their money to be taken away from them because this is the kiwi land and if these foreigners want to stay here they should help us with our economy. We are the best people in this world, our country is the most beautiful country in the world, our government is the least corrupted government of the world (of course that is the other way round), our graduates are the brightest in the world, our poo and wee is from gold and because of all these all non-kiwis should adore us and pay us lots and lots of money because we deserve it. New Zealanders are very jealous towards Australians. You just need to tell them how better Australia is compared to NZ. Then you get a sheep thrown to your head and they f**t angrily into your face. I have seen some of these kiwis when they come to Australia they brag about their country to other nationalities to encourage them to visit their country and this way to help their highly dependent economy. Some of them say funny lies, For example they say they have lived in many countries all around the world and nowhere else is like New Zealand , The best wheater, the best health system, the best education, the best and most friendly people, no corruption, no crime, affordable and great lifestyle, etc, etc. The funny thing is some of them claim they were Aussies and now live in NZ because Australia had lots of crime, Australians were racist, Australia was this and that and NZ is the best place on earth and even the whole entire universe to live! If you do not know them well you poor naïve person will believe all these and if you know them well somehow you just feel sorry.

However about 35% of the population rely on social benefits (a lot of elderly left alone by their children, a lot on sickness benefits and lots skill less Maories), 70% of the medical school graduates leave the country after 2 years of finishing their studies and only one third of foreign doctors remain in this country to work due to poor working conditions. You can imagine how dangerous it can be to become sick in this country. Studies show a great percentage of migrants lose their health after being and living in NZ due to poor health system comparable to third world countries even worse. Although they claim their country is safe but if you live there you feel how dangerous it is : high bullying rate at work, constant ripping off, constant pressure from local main stream New Zealanders to suck more blood from you and poor health system and poor service due to lack of skilled professionals.

Because most migrants leave after a few years the government tried to make it longer to get NZ citizenship to keep them in NZ longer. They just try to make everything longer, stretching the time they can suck up more blood. They make it more difficult for everyone to get entry to the country just to make them more eager and make their own value higher. It is just like a rouge trade person who makes you wait and run after him before he comes to your house and does all the repairing and asks you a lot of money. It is just a way of torture to take whatever they can from anyone who goes to their country because this is the only way they can have income. Otherwise except exporting agricultural products there is nothing else to be able to produce significant profit. The number one source of money over the last few decades were international students, when the number of students and skilled migrants drops they do every effort to attract them into the country and then just drag them from here to there to take their money out of their pocket and how cunning and skilled they are in this industry God knows. For example, they stupefy these students and ask them to take papers which are more expensive .You just will be amazed by their ability. Nearly almost everyone knows some tricks when it comes to meeting other nationalities. They are superficially friendly to get your trust and make a fool out of you. Because the nature is green, beautiful and peaceful a high percentage of new comers get fooled... The best preys are some naïve idiot foreigners from third world countries. They know how to bully people around the globe if they can to be able to shake them till all the money falls out of their pockets.

If you live in small city after a while you realise how much they are dependent on the money foreigners bring in .You just feel you are constantly have to feed them and let them suck and that will never end. If you are skilled you have to work for long hours with low pay, what they claim is our pay is low but we offer a great lifestyle. They have very particular ways of satisfying you instead of low pay, for example they give you the power to control others, greasingly admire you, superficially make friend with you, respect you and the list goes on and on….Then when it comes to daily life activities you gradually realise your dangerous position. If you have a computer problem for example: first of all there are not much good professionals to know what they are doing secondly they ask you a fortune for just doing nothing. I remember I had to leave my computer in a shop for some technical problems, he just did nothing, absolutely nothing and then asked me to come and pick up the computer, when I got home, I just felt hopeless. Where could I go to complain and how can I prove it. I have already paid and there was no way to claim it back. I decided to move out and sell some of my furniture. The guy from a tender centre came and picked up all my belongings and told me he would sell it. I waited weeks after weeks and had to pay a lot for mobile bill to ring him. But he never sent me back any money. I wrote a complaint to the local court but again if I wanted to do anything I had to pay twice to lawyers and the court itself to solve the problem. As they had no customer to get money from….It was ridiculous. If you sit among them you just feel sick. They just admire themselves and f**t on you and then you feel your head is spinning and you have to leave.