So further to the “multicultural’ comment in my post above, I did a quick review of COO of the sixty people in the section I work for:
New Zealand – 36
United Kingdom – 6
South Africa - 6
United States – 2
China – 2
Malaysia – 1
India – 1
Vietnam – 1
Russia – 1
Australia – 1
Argentina – 1
Fiji – 1
Ukraine – 1
Of the 36 born in NZ 4 or 5 have at least one parent not born in New Zealand. In the last fifteen years in my section, I’ve also worked with Dutch, Portuguese, French, Iraqi, and Iranians. Ten years ago the proportion of South Africans would have been a lot higher.