New Zealand is a beautiful country, with wonderful people. But I'm not surprised that, as they read the news, surf the net and watch television, it irks them that EnZed shares so little of the world spotlight. After a while, you start to feel left out.
I think Canadians probably get the same feeling, and the same snarkiness results.
Hate to disagree, but the New Zealanders are not "wonderful people". They have become European style leftists down there and their culture is showing the same weaknesses as Europe. I lived there for 2 years and finally departed because of the nasty, negative attitude of NZer's toward foreigners in general, and Americans and Aussies, in particular. Even my kids were subject to their nasty, uninformed hate. Physically a beautiful country, but rotten on the inside and getting worse. They have a very serious inferiority complex.
I have an ex-pat friend living in NZ that says it's a beautiful country full of lazy mouth breathing retards feeding off the public teat.
I don't know. I've never been there.