If you’d like to see me live, I’m touring a brand new show in 2024 and would love to see you there! Tix: comedy.com.au/jenny-tian This clip was part of my special which you can watch for free here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DL5UZqf6DuY.html
@@sheismymom I'll buy her a one-way ticket to Canada, so long as you promise to keep her there. I've heard that the United States were going to use this woman's schtick as a tool to extract information from prisoners-of-war, until it was discovered that it would violate The Geneva Convention.
Will You Marry Me ??? 💍 No worries. Im a peaceful guy from the tribe, which was keep out with the Great-Wall. ( these days we live in Europe and calm ) 😁😄😄😃😀😊 So? 💍 Are you ready for me, or need one more day to think? 😁😁😁
"If you’d like to see me live" If it's the live that rhymes with jive, I'm probably too busy and it's out of my way. If it's the other live that rhymes with give, it seems pretty important that I get there.
@@sheismymom Hi, there are Cruise Ships from Vancouver to Sydney, & the cost is only twice the cost of an inclusive airfare (of course are airfares that are a third of the cost, in comparison, but those airlines make you pay for any food & drink). The Cruise Ships include nearly all food & soft drink, in the starting package, but can purchase an add-on package which also makes the drinks & premium restaurant meal/s cheaper, than if pay/paid onboard. But all food in the standard restaurants, which are very nice & stylish, is included, in the standard fare. There's 3 Cruise Lines, that do Vancouver to Sydney cruises As well it being great on board, you get to visit some of the most beautiful & amazing Pacific Islands, on the way to Australia. Another advantage of doing a cruise is usually don't need any Visas for most of the islands, as if traveling on a cruise ship & in port for less than 24 hours (or can be up to 48 hours re a few countries), don't need it. Just a passport. (Like ALL things tho, check first & I make the disclaimer of that above may not be accurate, & some regulations may have changed, since I did a Pacific cruise) (make sure you get back to the boat well before departure time, as they don't wait for any late-comers even if see you running along the wharf/dock - costs ships lots of $ if they're after their allocated time/s (or before it). Some family friends (U.S. American who live in Portland) of ours did Vancouver to Australia. They invited as on board for a dinner while in Port (which the cruise ships allow you to do to in 1 or 2 ports) but you have to have a passport, or 2 photo ids if don't have a passport. Was funny having to use id, to go where I've walked to the end of the pier/wharf many times, as when no ships in dock, it goes back to being a public land & water area
Used to know a guy who was Chinese descent. One day someone came up with him and asked him if he would read something for him. He handed it over and it's written in Chinese characters. My friend replied that he couldn't read it. The other guy apologised and asked if it was Korean or something. My friend replied, "Listen to my voice. I sound like Steve Irwin." The other guy was all, "Oh, how long did it take you to pick up that accent?" My friend replied, "My family came over during the 1850s gold rush." The guy just looked at him blankly and walked away. We had a good laugh.
Many forgot about that the Australian Chinese community started during the Gold Rush. I have met many of Chinese Ancestry that cant speak anything other than english and have various aussie accents. Like an old boy in his 90's once that had the strongest damn Broady accent I ever heard.
@@Dominator150395 The Gold Rush is long over, but Australia is literally covered in gold, you can pan almost anywhere and atleast find a tiny spec for your effort. Many pan recreationally to this day but there is a very strict focus on making sure not to damage the land because the big giant gold companies leave nothing but ravaged unhealable land in their wake and do nothing to clean up after themselves. I know of several strip gold mines that sit fallow and barren to this day, many attempts have been made to regrow forests that once sat there, but even after 30 years not even grass will grow there. And many others cracked the aquifer water table and contaminated the water supply for a hundred kilometers, leaving no one with clean water except for rain run off from roof guttering and dams. Many have to by their water and ship it in in regional area's.
@@user-ot7ec4uc3g and there is still tonnes of gold still around for those that are willing to spend the effort to look for it, the country is covered in it.
I ate in a Chinese restaurant in a small town in Virginia. The Chinese server said, in a thick southern drawl, "What can I get for y'all?" That was incongruous. Then when I asked if they had chopsticks, she said, "Oh I'm so sorry, we sure don't."
When I went to Asian restaurants of different kinds in Europe, I was a few times surprised that the staff often didn't speak any English, despite good English being incredibly common in somewhere like Sweden. Until I realised the obvious. People who move to a new country learn the local language, which is why I had that expectation formed back home in Australia, but corrected in Stockholm.
@@c3aloha One day my parents and I were discussing the worst Chinese restaurant we'd ever been to. We lived in Pittsburgh, but my parents and I both said it was in South Bend, Indiana. They turned out to be different restaurants. I had ordered wonton soup, but the owner said she would serve me chicken noodle because it it a dollar cheaper. I much prefer wonton unless it's made by my mother, wife, et cetera.
@@rojoeditor haha I don’t think so but close. Maybe Manassas. They had to adapt to local conditions to survive I guess. This was over 30 years ago too so the area was definitely not as diverse as it is today.
Not long after I first arrived in Canada, sitting in a lawyers' office in Vancouver many decades ago, I chatted with a much older turbaned bearded Sikh gentleman. I complimented him on how excellent his English was. He politely responded that it ought to be because he was born in Canada. Egg all over my face.
Conversely, I asked a doctor of mine (who was Asian) how long he’d lived here. He thought I was asking if he was from America. He said, “My whole life.” And I said, “No, how long have you lived HERE?” He looked confused and then said, “About five years.” I said, “Okay, good. Do you have any restaurants you recommend in this town?” Poor guy.
I went to college and in the dorms there was a young guy who had Japanese parents, but was born and grew up in the Australian outback. He could not speak Japanese and had the thickest Australian accent I'd ever heard, like the Aussiest guy I had ever met. Surprising at first when half the college is international students and you expect him to have a Japanese accent, but you adjust very quickly and it's quickly obvious he's not Japanese, except through descent, and is 100% Australian country boy.
I had a coworker who was Nigerian, and he had a flawless generic American accent that he learned from TV. The security guards were also Nigerian, and didn't really speak English, just Yoruba, which was also my coworker's main language. But he said the security guards were dicks so he just pretended to be an American for the several months he worked there lol.
Similar story, I'm Polynesian who ended up living in Japan for couple of years. Move too Hawaii then Australia but Have fam in NZ. I was helping my friend do deliveries for some cash. Got too one restaurant its owned by a Japanese and Maori couple I didn't know at the time. My mate tells me the dude helping with the delivery is Japanese, he is actually the son. Looking Nihonjin az, here I go too greet him in Nihongo. The man speaks too in the Horiest nz accent eg.. Up 2 my bro, you helping the bro?? Chur mean how you liking the Mahi lol
Years ago (when I was a young teenager), my dad hired an account to help process his tax returns. The accountant was Chinese, spoke in a strong aussie accent and easily slipped into fluent Greek to help my dad understand him better 😅 Needless to say, dad booked him every year, from then on! 😂🤗🙂
Somehow, this is easier and caused no problem. I once talked to a Chinese guy who grew up in Scotland, and my brain short-circuited for a few seconds due to the disconnect between what I was seeing and what I was hearing.
I used to see a Chinese guy from Ireland and yeah the brain takes a second to adjust. His brain probably took a while to adjust to seeing anyone at all talk in an accent other than Irish when he came to Australia...
Swedish. Could speak with a Swedish accent or English accent. She had to "do" English one, only because hadn't lived there for a while, but it was very natural sounding. Her accent changed while growing up, due to the move. Chinese & English parents that moved to Sweden. - - - French accent with French first name & Spanish last name. Of Japanese appearance. Not born in France or Japan. French & Japanese parents, with Spanish ancestry as well. After meeting & speaking to those 2, I stopped making any assumptions re face = where they are from; & that their heritage is what their accent is. I learnt all that about them, within first several minutes of meeting, as was both interested, & processing, so asked
@@CBM_Walks Totally understand. It was the seeing a Chinese face and talking to Shrek bit that threw me for a few seconds. Also needed a second to adjust to the really thick Scottish accent.
@@Alone47 Besides from that much of my family (recent-ish ancestory) lived in areas that were Goldfields so Chinese-Australian has relevance re early Australia (after 1788) as many Chinese males came from Canton region to Victorian & Queensland goldfields, one of my Great Great Grandfathers came from south-east China in 1842. Another GG Grand Father came from Scotland. Through some people being a bit naughty - lol (doing something before marriage, & therefore next descendant didn't stay within same family line but ended up with another) I have appearance of (what some would say is) Scottish Australian but my cousin, with black hair & dark eyes, & who I'm blood related to, is direct straight line descendant from that first Chinese immigrant, which is also the Only asian line across all my/our family trees. Another GG Father is/was from France. So, that is a very long explanation (sorry), as to why anyone that makes/ puts a comment like (at around 4:00) that Jenny talks about, can often be less "Australian" than persons of Chinese appearance, since many came to Australia through the 1850s 1860s 1870s & into the mid 1880s. Approx 8,000 to 10,000 ppl. Many were single males, so married Scottish, English, and a few Irish women (or married next descendant females, of Australia born with Scottish, English, or Irish, parents. There were married Chinese males too that came alone, & going to return, after "striking it rich" on goldfields. Most didn't tho (& they just wanted to get enough, to sell to live a bit more comfortably in China than being poor). While most Chinese married males returned approx 20% of married ones didn't. The above scenarios also apply for many English males, & U.S. Americans (as Californian goldfields started running out), and others of UK/Anglo-Saxon descent, coming to Australia from 1850s-1880 So All that is more reasons why I try to not assume but also do have that "disconnect" thing on occasion, since I also have connect & disconnect to my f'n self, at same time lol. By the way, through the family trees (with some lines gotten back to 500 AD) we discovered that 1 married couple (current) are distant cousins lol. The connection of ancestory is 1300 years ago, so far enough back that there's no issue, but an in-law relative of mine (that I'm not related to - well wasn't) are now calling each other 'Cousin' as we think it's weird, interesting, & funny. Anyone who thinks/puts a comment like that d**k did should do a DNA test. Not only would they be a stunned mullet, they'd have a cow
Used to work with a bloke who was Austrian/Malay and had the THICKEST Scottish accent you've ever heard! Like the kind even other Scotts can't understand...
From the US: My statistics professor in junior college was, if I recall right, of Korean descent, and raised in Texas. If a cartoon needed a voice actor for a cowboy he’d win the part easily. His voice could’ve co-starred with John Wayne.
When my wife went for her citizenship test I was allowed to accompany her. What they didn't count on was an Ocker Aussie being able to speak my wife's native language. They thought I was interpreting the questions, but I was giving her the answers in her own language. She's an Aussie now. What does it mean being an Aussie? It means the bastards can't deport you.
@@Muzikman127 For people to become an Australian citizen they ultimately have to go to an interview where they are asked ridiculous 'Aussie' questions, which most Australian high school students don't even know, like "Which arm of government has the power to interpret and apply laws?" I accompanied my wife to the interview. The questions were asked verbally. The interviewer would ask the question and I was pretending to qualify the question in my wife's native language, however, I was giving her the answers. You're not allowed to do this now. 😊😊
@@user-uk7se7ez7r Honestly, if they can't understand the questions themselves, they shouldn't be allowed to be citizens. As long as the questions are in a high-school level of english (or the native tongue of the country). If I moved to germany and became a citizen, I'd assume I need to be relatively fluent (B1, maybe B2) in german. Same in the netherlands, france, etc.
@@Programmdude this isn’t really a great thresh hold either tbh - if we based citizen eligibility on having high school level english, many of my classmates back in hs would need their citizenship revoked lol. theres also learning disabilities, physical disabilities, psychatric etc. to take into account. there’s many aboriginal communities as well where english is not their first language and they’re surely the most australian you could get. even though english is most widely used here, it’s not even our official language - we don’t have one - so it wouldn’t really make sense for it to be the deciding factor imo basic english to get you through a day, sure, but being able to understand complex sentences in english, maybe not the best indicator of australian-ness
One of my funny travel memories is walking along the street in Saigon, behind two Vietnamese girls. then I heard them start talking to each other in a full Bogan accent. In that setting hearing Pauline Hanson's voice coming from two Vietnamese girls is quite confronting.
@ibast, if you'd hadn't seen them, would you have thought wtf is Pauline doing in Asia. lol I thought of mentioning Pauline in another comment, for an example of very aussie or bogan accent, but too many people reckon Pauline's accent isn't. And it is now bit more of a general Queensland accent with some words with more accent. But when we first ever heard Pauline, that was not the accent/voice you expected to hear, after the introduction on radio or TV, of a politician. Pity you didn't or couldn't talk to those girls, probably would've been interesting conversation. Perhaps could yelled G'day, or cooee (& although many younger people don't know cooee, there's no mistaking it's Aussie accent
@@inertia179 He said he saw them before he heard them. Vietnamese-Australian is one of the major sub-demographics in Australia. So they looked Vietnamese (or at least, Asian). There is a Vietnamese style look, & I don't mean re facial/skin. I've heard the very aussie accent from a couple of Vietnamese here. Of course those girls may have been of other Asian demographic, but considering there is many Vietnamese & many Vietnamese-Australians in Australia, & Vietnam is a major destination (for both holidays, & working; lot of Australian doctors & dentists work for 6 or 12 months in Vietnam) So yeh as they were Asian & in Vietnam, he perhaps assumed they were Vietnamese, but given the situation, & with bogan accent, it's a somewhat fair assumption they were persons of Vietnamese origin. (that were born in or grown in Australia). Generally, a lot of the Vietnamese demographic in Australia dates to the 1970s, so a very aussie accent would not be surprising. Just in a location, (sometimes), outside Australia, you might do a double take. I often get very annoyed at people who make assumptions based only on appearance (& will tell them they're idiots), but there was enough in his post, & if good knowledge re demographics of areas in Australian cities (& which I have), if he made any assumptions, they were ok imo. Now, if you want to why it would be much less likely they'd be Chinese with a bogan accent in Vietnam, let me know. Jenny's accent isn't bogan aussie, btw. It's just very aussie I'm now thinking of a good Vietnamese friend who went to visit Vietnam, who'd never been there & everyone kept talking to her in Vietnamese. Which she doesn't know except the very basics. Her accent? A general Australian rounded accent. Because she was born in Australia, But all the Vietnamese people she met in Vietnamese assumed she lived there or is from there
I'm Australian, and with mostly English and Irish background. Went over to England for my sister's wedding, and while walking around the Roman Baths in Bath (love the names of places in England), we saw a big group of school kids doing the usual thing when going on a school trip - doing the educational stuff that their teacher gave them to fill out by asking locals questions about the historical site. We were tourists too, but they couldn't tell because we fit in with the locals. When they came up to us to ask their questions they all did double takes when they heard Aussie instead of regional English.
I'm Asian Aussie as well and I relate to that citizenship bit so much 😂 had something similar said to me and my response was "I don't see you playing the didgeridoo"
Any Asian country is infinitely more ethnically insular. If collective rights exist, then groups get to decide who is a part of their group and who isn't.
OMG your Australian!! Most youtubers nowadays are American and you live in Epping?! I live so close to youuuu. As soon I heard, "I thought you lived in Epping" and "no I live in the middle of LCT" my face lit up and I thought, OMG a youtuber that lives near meee! I hope you see this comment in the ocean of others. Ilyyy
It is not just race. People expect Minnie Mouse voice from petite females. People expect a deep voice from a lumberjack looking guy. If I travel to another part of my country they don’t expect my accent. It is called stereotyping and has been around forever.
@@Dave-sw2dm You may be right. Not only am I a Mexican who sounds exactly like a white person and doesn't seem like. I have any trace of hispanic culture culture and my upbringing But I'm also 300 pounds and I have a voice that definitely does not sound like. I am three hundred pounds also shut up YOU'RE fat
@@Dave-sw2dm Those examples 😂 But I have to disagree slightly, if you are also implying that this type of stereotyping is evil. It’s not a malice type stereotyping. It’s just that our brains form certain profiles for certain kinds of factors. Which is not accurate & having the ability loosen it is good. But, just stereotyping like in face not matching voice case isn’t harmful either.
@gloryglory5688 In her video Jenny mentions that she was born in another country. She didn't say at what age her family immigrated. Accent is something we start to learn before we're born .. from 28 weeks gestation foetuses can hear, and babies cry in the accent they experienced before birth. The first few years of life are very important to language acquisition. For example, a person who isn't exposed to the phonemes of a language in their formative years will struggle to be able to hear them clearly, let alone learn to say them, later. It's not unusual for immigrant families to teach their children a language other than English at home.
Jenny is great, love her comedy. Although as an American, I don't always fully understand some of the lingo, for example, "bogan". Had to look that one up. For my fellow Americans (and other non-Australians), bogan basically means the equivalent of the American term "redneck" -- someone unsophisticated. (It's not a demonym for someone from Bogata. 🙂)
There is a slight difference in nuance between bogan and redneck, I feel. I think bogan sits somewhere between redneck and ghetto, minus the race subtext in the latter, but dialing up the class subtext to compensate.
@justinmorgon. Hi. "Bogan" isn't exactly the equivalent of American 'Redneck'. (it's just the nearest word/type to explain it). A better description of Bogan is "a bit rough" in style and speech. Jenny's accent is how some Bogans would also sound. (some, not all). However, there's also thing called "cashed-up" bogans. Definitely not unsophisticated, just might sound it from way they talk. Of course there are also the many "true bogans". After 4 or 5 VBs, or Fruitly Lexia, nearly everyone becomes Bogan, lol There's several types of Bogans, just like there's (more than) several types of Australian accent. Jenny's is not common now in Melbourne or Sydney & in a lot of Brisbane any more, except in some outer suburbs. Many Australians are commenting, in/on Jenny's videos it's the "most Australian" accent they've heard. That type of Aus accent was common till the 90s, but in the cities, at least it's often more rounded now. But there's also the frequent Euro-Australian accent, which is another, again. (Although, quite a number of Austalians don't realise they're own accent is more "Australian" that they think)
@@markv1274 Are you Justin? No?! Was I talking to you?!! Do you butt in on the other people conversations often, _ _ _ _ (see @4:05) You've also misread some of it. When I said "real Bogans" in sentence after re "cashed up" Bogans, I wasn't referring to "Cashed up". You've also missed the joke in it. Which was to imply the stuff before was best explanation for something that can't really be explained, in response to Justin's comment. (who didn't ask me for a comment, either; just like I didn't ask you, for one!). I already pretty much have figured out where you are - actually it's more re you aren't because of your comment & rudeness, & you thinking there's not several aussie accents & which have changed over time. I also assume you've never been to Northern Australia. The following is TRUE. There not one single Australian accent. The Qld accent (north of Brisbane) can be different to a Melbourne or Sydney inner-middle suburbs accent. An Adelaide accent is different to a Melbourne accent. "Can be different". That does not mean it always. Differences can be subtle & nowhere like amount of difference of UK accents, & even north v south US accents. Some Melbourne outer Westies' accent is closer to the Qld one, but in Sydney many westies accent has changed due to the change in demographics there. As for the Melbourne Euro-Aussie accent in the 70s/80s watch Acropolis Now. Or for more recent, Superwog, on youtube. As for Sydney's west (some, not all!) accent, watch here come the habibs. As for what used to be a more common Aussie accent in 70s/80s, watch early years of Neighbours & Home & Away. (Plenty clips on youtube) Paul Hogan, Shane Warne, Rebel Wilson has aussie bogan accents, early on, but as they did more in media, their accents modified. Steve Irwin's accent never did, & it was a rare accent, at that time, but it was more common place, going back (Watch 'Dad & Dave' movies). As for the You may hear Jenny's type of accent more often where you are, but I've rarely heard it in East Cost inner suburbs & most middle suburbs for quite some years, except in Brisbane a bit. That's not to say, that don't hear it on occasions in inner Melbourne/inner Sydney just not much. How's that for an essay?! If you/anyone is (see @4:05), it's my way to be (@4:05) back. I was going to put emojis where I mean things not seriously, but I can't be ar**d. How that's for being real (see @4:10)
I nearly spat beer everywhere 25 seconds in! 🤣 Craft beer though, which means I’m not a bogan no matter how smashed I get. Nutbush though? Following after the line “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again” should be the true test! Never heard of Jenny before now, but subbed! 👍
I was born in Australia in the late 1950's and I didn't see an Asian person until I must have been 15 or 16. They all had Asian accents and it wasn't until more Asian migrants arrived and then their children grew up that I always did a double take whenever a person of Asian appearance sounded like the kids I grew up. It took a few years not to be surprised, I'm sorry to say. Nowhere near as bad as my mother though. One of my nephews bought a new girlfriend to a big family thing and I heard my mother ask my nephew "Oh, she's Chinese, will she eat what we've got for the BBQ?" My nephew said "Jenny's Vietnamese, and she'll eat whatever." Later on my mother asked Jenny "How was the journey here?" Jenny said there wasn't a lot of traffic. "No, when you came over on the boat." Never saw Jenny again..........
I have to admit I have been guilty of stereotyping and prejudging. I had to call someone at work about a complex matter and their name was something like Heong Lin Choong and I was like, errrr, this could be painful. When they answered the phone they had the most Aussie accent. It made me chuckle afterwards and showed me after all these years it's still v. important to keep your mind open.
I nearly spat beer everywhere 25 seconds in! Craft beer though, which means I’m not a bogan no matter how smashed I get. Nutbush though? Following after the line “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again” should be the true test! Never heard of Jenny before now, but subbed!
'My face doesn’t match my voice' Well, lots of Indigenous people are white, like Claire G Coleman, or Anita Heiss, for example. You can't tell somebody's ethnicity by how they look.
Once, I had a conversation with two young Aussie Caucasian girls working at a hostel in Sydney. Aware that almost 50% of Australians are 1st or 2nd generation Australians, at some point, I asked where they were originally from. One replied to me, her parents were from Germany, the other replied she was just a "regular" Australian. When I asked her to clarify, she said her parents were from UK!
@@atriox7221 obviously she thought of herself as a regular "true" Australian because she is of british origin, even though she was no more Australian than the other girl. And no doubt, mainstream Australian society makes it, and wants it to feel that way
I remember cheering for Ian Thorpe to get gold in 2000 and afterwards remembered I am a maori from New Zealand. So from then on I cheered for Australia except against the All Blacks. Or any kiwi actually. Unless we lose. Then I'm aussie!😮
@Tel3gramme-nomnomjenny wow it is you! Yes I love the different experiences of dual nationalities. About forty percent of the population is anyway. It kinda makes me sad to think other duals nationals are out there who will not experience the joy of being at a sporting match in Australia yelling "destroy that aussie" and all the aussies around you will just laugh and make jokes. Us kiwis can do that. You maybe not so much.....hang on you can! By wearing an all blacks jumper at a bledisloe cup game! 😆 Sorry 2:30am here and got insomnia....mind is restless.
"My face is Chinese but my voice makes it sound like I start fights at pubs." You go girl! Meaning, stay here and & keep at it. You're cool and too funny - typical self-effacing Aussie. Simply brilliant. Cheers from Sydney, AU.
It is, but technically she's not an ABC. She obviously grew up here but she was born in fucking Finland of all places. FBCAG. Finland born Chinese Australian Grown?
My friend is 5th generation Australian with Chinese heritage. It's funny when people who don't know him hear him speak for the first time They're always taken aback.
I was assuming that because she said Epping, the taxi trip was in Melbourne ... Epping is a long distance from the city, so I googled the tunnel thinking it might be some small one in the suburbs somewhere that I hadn't heard of. Nope. Sydney.
@@jamesrowlands8971 Hi, & haha, I previously looked up distance from Melbourne to Sydney's Epping. Just for fun, as knew this was recorded in Sydney (from the jokes in other clips, from this 1 hour show). Sydney's Epping (which you now know anyway, but mentioning for others who may not) is a middle-outer suburb, so travel time from Syd's CBD isn't much different, to the time from Melb's CBD to Melb's Epping. About 10 or so minutes, depending if use freeways or usual roads. If Jenny uses that joke when she's doing Melbourne Comedy Festival in March-April, same joke would work (say "staying there"), but she's going to have change the tunnel. lol. City Link tunnel might not get as as good as a laugh tho. Jenny also references Burwood in a joke, in another video, but again it's Burwood in Sydney, & the joke wouldn't work at all for Melb's Burwood
@@CBM_Walks thank you for this. I wondered if the context changed because a taxi fare to Epping would be pretty good. And the driver would be pissed if you got off at an inner city tunnel for sure. Even if you were legit living homeless in one of the escape ladders. It does annoy me how much we reuse really Anglo place names here. I had all sorts of trouble living in Melbourne's Bayswater due to the one in NSW and WA.
Moving from a small Queensland town to Sydney i was quite shocked that you can actually ASK someone "what kind of Asian are you?" And they actually answer!
I live in Wollongong and l love meeting Fiji - lndians. I was in class with one lady. She told me she had never been to India and she is 7th generation Fiji- lndian. It was neither a surprise l have met 7th or more generations Indians from different African countries.
I always love it when folks have different accents than their typical nationality would otherwise be. Proof that accents are just where you grow up, not what your race is... makes us all seem more connected to me. 🙂
I used to work for a major company with a Hong Kong Chinese CEO. When you first spoke to him, the thick Kiwi accent was so strange to hear. He was born to Hong Kong Chinese parents, but raised in Auckland. When new people started at the company, everyone was excited to see your expression when you first met him.
I can relate to this. Going through High School in 1990s Australia with two girls of Chinese descent but no Chinese accent whatsoever was interesting looking back. Almost nobody cared they were Chinese or even noticed really. We just didn't care. I asked one of them years latter if she copped any racism at High School and was surprised when she said yes. When she then told me it was some of the girls at the school who were dumber than a box of hammers I laughed and said who cares what they think. She didn't care what they said either.
She is one of the only female comedians I actually find quite funny and doesn't constantly go on about the V. Plenty of good jokes from all areas and some are very clever. Well worth watching and will go see live if i can get tix.
@0w784g oh no... My..world is...shattered now... 🤣 do you really think comedy is the place for verbatim story telling. That's the point. There's a kernel of truth that gets comedic flavour added to it. You do know that, right? 😂
lol as a Brit, hearing that Aussies tell others that they’re not Australian is so bizarre. Essentially, neither are you, we colonised the landmass and sent a load of criminals/economic migrants there. 😅 Same story with North America. It’s also odd that people don’t realise we live in a fully globalised world. Any face can have any accent, it’s not that unusual. We all live on a tiny tiny mud-ball floating through space. Love Jenny’s accent and comedy!
One of my teacher's in primary school looked as though she was born in South East Asia and when she opened her mouth a perfect Australian girl accent came out. She knew I liked cars and she showed me a picture of the first car she had. It was a 1970's SLR5000 Holden Torana, as Aussie as Football, Meatpies, Kangaroos and Uluru. It turned out her mum was from Hong Kong and her dad was an Australian mechanic.
Thing is … your voice PERFECTLY matches your face! Of course, I’m going off of tone and quality. Accents to me do not define race but rather locale. Love your routine!
I work at woolies. Last week an older lady in a wheelchair was looking a bit lost, so I asked her if I could help. She told me she was looking for toilet gel, and I asked what brand. She looked at me a little funny, but said Earth's Choice, slowly. Didn't think much of it, said alright, went to grab one and asked her if that was the one. She looked at me, and asked if I "know what it says". I was confused. Looked down at the bottle, "Yeah, earth's choice, toilet gel, 2 litres. It's half off today?" then she said "Oh, good! Wasn't sure you could read that, you look Asian!" I mean shit, alright then. She was pleasant otherwise, she just genuinely didn't think I understood english somehow despite talking to her the whole bloody time. It was an odd encounter.
There’s a doco out there (somewhere in YT land by the ABC or SBS) about the 5th gen plus Chinese migrants in Victoria (I believe)! Mate, they are more Aussie than a lot of Aussies! They carry on, drink and smoke follow the footy and cricket and somehow they retain almost all of their values of their culture! Post script, drinking and smoking isn’t all of what the Australian culture is! If anyone has seen or watched the doco, you’ll know what I mean!
I was shocked that people that literally colonized the island like 200 years ago can be so racist against immigrants, but then I remembered I'm an American. For what it's worth, this set was so aggressively Aussie it made me want to throw a boomerang at a crocodile.
My favourite bit of comedy was :- Why do Chinese people move to Australia and not Papua New Guinea? Answer. There are more white people in Australia, and more Indigenous in Papua New Guinea. Who would you rather live with?
@@d.h.foster8937 What's wrong with Chinese immigration? I'm just pointing out that the Chinese prefer not to emigrate to countries with high levels of Indigenous peoples , like Papua New Guinea, or the Solomon Islands.
In the sixties my family moved from England to Malta (father in Royal Air Force). I have (had) black hair and olive skin which goes quite 'Mediterranean' when exposed to the sun. Most British people were quite identifiable except me, and I was always addressed by the locals in Maltese. On the flip side, I was frequently asked to remove myself from British servicemen and family only swimming facilities.
it's just sad that "white" australians are just seen as aussie but everyone else is "chinese australian" etc. Like they are probably from france/england/italy etc but nobody gives a shit and doesn't distinguish. sad.
Yeah. Australia isn't an enthic group, it's a culture, to be one is you have to really understand it, act it & live it almost exclusively. Very similar say for example from history, the Mejai from ancient Egypt, they use be an exsclusive enthic group at first then it they became multi-ethnic but culturally follow the Mejai warrior culture still, it largely stayed intact from a simple tribe to becoming the Pharaoh's bodyguards & elite soldiers from start to finish of the Egyptian civilisation.
I was once in a Chinese restaurant in Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia. It had an Anglo-Saxon waiter and some Asian people doing the cooking. It was Chinese New Year. They were unaware of it 😂
