Fun Facts About Sydney Australia

Here are some fun facts about Sydney Australia, just to whet your appetite.

The word kangaroo is an Australian Aboriginal word meaning, "I don't understand you".

Some English settler must have pointed to a kangaroo and asked an Aborigine what it was called in Aboriginal language.

The Aborigine had no idea what the white man was asking him, so he replied "kangaroo" which meant, "I don't understand".

The white man thought he was real clever. He went back to his friends and told them, hey, the name for that strange jumping animal, it's "kangaroo". That's what the natives call it.

Wasn't that dumb of him?

Another of my fun facts about Sydney Australia is... The name budgerigar, a small Australian parrot, is another Aboriginal word. It means "good to eat".

Weren't these early British settlers quite stupid? I mean really D-U-M-B.

These British settlers were men who wore three-piece suits in the tropical heat. And they thought the Aborigines were ignorant because they walked around naked!

Let's face it, times were a bit different 200 years ago. American settlers thought the Native Americans were dumb as well. The white men just couldn't understand the vast cultural differences. But they had the guns.