What's Your Number? Multi-National People You Know

Was just having an interesting discussion with someone about how many people from different countries / nationalities we each knew - either from working with them directly, VS just knowing them / being acquainted. Having made a few passes at this, it turns out I know a hell of a lot than I'd realised (i.e. I suspect I'm probably a fair bit more "international" than I realised...)

 

Totals:

* Current Workplace in NZ (Currently) = 9 10

* Current Workplace (Previously / On Top of Current Total) = 3

* Previous Workplaces in NZ (Combined) = 13

* Blender (In Person) = 9

* Blender (Online that I've Interacted With... IIRC) = 18

* Other FOSS Work = 3

* During School Days = 21

* Total Unique =  Approx  25-30   (will carefully re-count later)

So, what are your numbers?

In the office at current workplace in NZ, we currently have (AFAIK):

* Australian

* Canada

* China

* Hong Kong

* Ireland

* Malaysia    (and LOTS with links via spouses, etc.)

* NZ       (TBH, this is the first time I've actually worked with this many Kiwi's)

* Sri Lanka

* South Africa

* USA    (* disclaimer - not physically in our office, as they are all from the external vendor / partner corp we work with)

Previously, this list also included (pre-pandemic):

* India

* Philippines

* UK-Russian

At other workplaces in NZ:

* Australian

* Belgium

* China

* Ethiopia

* France  (i.e. 2 French postdocs from my PhD research lab)

* Germany  (i.e. lots of Professors / PI's in NZ are from Germany)

* Iran   (dunno if it it was because we already had one Iranian on the team, but we ended up with *lots* of them)

* Ireland / Scotland

* Mexico (indirectly)

* Netherlands

* Nigeria

* NZ

* Thailand

* UK

* USA

Blender (In Person):

* Argentina

* Australia 

* Belgium

* Brazil

* Denmark

* France

* Germany

* Iceland

* Netherlands

Blender (Online - Apologies if I missed / mis-assigned anyone):

* Australia

* Argentina

* Costa Rica

* Canada

* China

* Finland

* France

* Germany

* Iceland

* India

* Japan

* Netherlands

* NZ

* Philippines

* Russia

* Spain 

* USA

* UK

Other FOSS:

* Canada

* Germany

* Netherlands

School Years:

* China  (3rd wave of Asians)

* Ethiopia 

* Hong Kong  (x1 - During High School)

* Germany  (via 2 exchange students)

* Japanese  (Half only. None were fully Japanese IIRC)

* Iraq (??? IIRC) -  (Her mum was one of the victims of the CTV collapse in the Feb 22 quake)

* Maori - Only 2-3 that I can remember. 

* NZ  (All other "non-Maori", i.e. "Pakeha")

* Oman (x1)

* Pakistan

* Pasifika  (Mainly Samoan + Tongan) 

* Philippines (4th Wave of Asians)

* Peru

* Russia   (I only learned a few years ago that best-friend of classmate was daughter of our favourite student teacher from intermediate days)

* Singapore

* Sri Lanka   (Family friends - i.e. Family of Dad's former student)

* South Africa

* South Korea  (2nd Wave of Asians. I used to know a LOT of Koreans... not to mention the exchange students we'd get)

* Taiwan    (1st Wave of Asians)

* Thailand

* Ukraine

* UK  (x1)