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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 923356" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>24% of New Zealand residents were born overseas (<a href="https://www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Infographics/2013-Census-NZ-as-a-village-of-100-people/_resampled/ResizedImageWzc3MCw3NDgzXQ/nz-as-a-village-of-100-people.jpg" target="_blank">in 2013</a>), so the noteworthy thing about New Zealand's 12.5% foreign born players, is how <em>low</em> it is. They're under-represented.</p><p></p><p>Not that it's surprising though - you would expect them to be less interested in rugby, on average.</p><p></p><p>For Scotland, only 17% of residents are born outside Scotland, though most of them are from other home nations so likely to be equally interested in rugby. 46% foreign born players is high, but only ~29pp higher than you would expect.</p><p></p><p>South Africa has just 5% born abroad, so if they included that in their quota system they would only need 1 or 2 foreign born players in the squad.</p><p>(I'm sure barely any of them actually play rugby though)</p><p></p><p>Argentina has 4.5%. Which sounds crazy low, but then Japan is only 2%.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 923356, member: 73940"] 24% of New Zealand residents were born overseas ([URL='https://www.stats.govt.nz/assets/Infographics/2013-Census-NZ-as-a-village-of-100-people/_resampled/ResizedImageWzc3MCw3NDgzXQ/nz-as-a-village-of-100-people.jpg']in 2013[/URL]), so the noteworthy thing about New Zealand's 12.5% foreign born players, is how [I]low[/I] it is. They're under-represented. Not that it's surprising though - you would expect them to be less interested in rugby, on average. For Scotland, only 17% of residents are born outside Scotland, though most of them are from other home nations so likely to be equally interested in rugby. 46% foreign born players is high, but only ~29pp higher than you would expect. South Africa has just 5% born abroad, so if they included that in their quota system they would only need 1 or 2 foreign born players in the squad. (I'm sure barely any of them actually play rugby though) Argentina has 4.5%. Which sounds crazy low, but then Japan is only 2%. [/QUOTE]
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