Samoan slang enters Australian mainstream, fuels interest in Polynesian culture, language

When I sat down to watch the Australian drama Bump on the day of its release, I was excited to hear the term “uce” peppering the dialogue between two teenage characters.

This slang term of endearment, coined by the Samoan diaspora in the US and New Zealand a couple of decades ago, has made its way across the Tasman and into mainstream conversation.

Anything that positively…