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Jafa is a slang term (usually pejorative) for a resident of Auckland, New Zealand. It is the acronym for ''Just Another Fucking Aucklander''. This prejudice against Aucklanders started to appear within the last four decades, and is considered to be representative of the boorishness of Aucklanders, or the envy of the rest of New Zealand, depending on the perspective. The term is also misspelled as Jaffa, a chocolate confection from Dunedin, and is often used in sentences which render the original term useless in the grammatical sense. The term has wider currency than the earlier derogatory term "Rangitoto Yank"〔("Colloquialisms of a fruity Kiwi kind" ), 24 May 1998, The Independent〕 A variant is Jaffa for ''Just Another Fuckwit From Auckland''. ==Origins== The word Jafa often conveys dislike for Aucklanders. While only a small part of New Zealand geographically, Auckland makes up / *100|0}}% of the population of New Zealand, by far the largest city, and has greater economic power (mainly through the centralisation of many companies) than its population share would indicate. Other factors in the use of the word: *Aucklanders themselves see JAFA as standing for 'Just another friendly Aucklander' or 'Just another fantastic Aucklander'. *Auckland is alleged to dominate in national politics and society, a claim possibly somewhat overstated, as much of the political power is concentrated in Wellington, the country's capital. In terms of society recognition, Wellingtonians are also more than twice as likely to be selected to receive Commonwealth honours such as those on the New Year's Honour List. *Auckland is alleged to receive more than its fair share of government funds, though often in the past, as in 2005, it "received less than its share in terms of its proportion of total population",〔''(What You Should Know About Auckland )'' – ''The New Zealand Herald'', Tuesday 21 November 2006, Page D2〕 and a report in 1991 showed that out of $150 million in fuel taxes, only $84 million had come back to the Auckland Region in transport investment. *Auckland is alleged to be a drain on the national economy. In fact, it is the main business centre in the country, but rural New Zealand produces the agricultural majority of the nation's exports. Auckland produces around 35 percent of New Zealand's GDP, however on a per-capita basis, it is fifth behind Taranaki, Wellington, Southland and Canterbury. *Auckland is alleged to dominate the National Provincial Championship in rugby union in the 1980s and 90s, when Auckland won the championship in 15 out of 30 years and never lost in a final, holding the prestigious Ranfurly Shield trophy for a record 61 successful defences over 8 years. *Auckland is alleged to be full of rude, greedy and arrogant people, having a similar reputation as those of Perth in Australia, Mumbai and Kolkata in India or Milan and Rome in Italy or Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia. *Auckland is alleged to be full of cars and especially SUVs (often referred to by detractors as 'Remuera Tractors', with Remuera being the stereotypical 'rich people's suburb'), and its drivers preferring them to other types of transportation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Climatologist puts heat on 4WDs )〕 but Aucklanders use them less than the rural population. *Auckland is alleged to be a culturally alien place due to the much higher proportion of non-Māori and nonwhite populations than the rest of the country. Percentage-wise, Auckland has the seventh largest ethnic Chinese population among all urban areas outside Greater China.〔http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/huo-will-continue-fight-asian-voice-auckland/5/24471〕 In the 2006 census, Asians comprised 18.9% of Auckland's population but only 7.9% in Christchurch, and 14.4% of Auckland's but merely 2.8% of Christchurch's population are Pacific Islanders. Most new immigrants to Auckland are from East Asia and South Asia, while people immigrating to other parts of the country show higher percentage rates of UK and South African origins.〔Wardlow Friesen, ''Diverse Auckland: The Face of New Zealand in The 21st Century?'', Asia New Zealand Foundation, 2006 http://www.asianz.org.nz/files/AsiaNZ%20Outlook%206.pdf〕 Auckland is finding itself increasingly marginalised on sports traditionally identified with New Zealand culture, such as rugby and netball, because of high immigrant numbers from countries with little tradition of such sports. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jafa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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