Jafa is a slang term (sometimes pejorative ) for a resident of Auckland , New Zealand. It is an acronym , standing for Just Another Fucking Aucklander . This prejudice against Aucklanders started to appear around the 1900s, when Premier Richard John Seddon referred to Aucklanders as "Rangitoto Yanks," 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". A variant is Jaffa, Just Another Fuckwit From Auckland .
1-413: The word Jafa often conveys dislike for Aucklanders. While only a small part of New Zealand geographically, Auckland makes up 29% 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: It has been claimed in one 2007 tourist article that in
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