Topic investigation for Thurs. Sept. 17

Alien:

al⋅ien

  [eyl-yuhn, ey-lee-uhn] Show IPA

–noun

1.	a resident born in or belonging to another country who has not acquired citizenship by naturalization (distinguished fromcitizen ).

2.	a foreigner.

3.	a person who has been estranged or excluded.

4.	a creature from outer space; extraterrestrial.

–adjective

5.	residing under a government or in a country other than that of one's birth without having or obtaining the status of citizenship there.

6.	belonging or relating to aliens: alien property.

7.	unlike one's own; strange; not belonging to one: alien speech.

8.	adverse; hostile; opposed (usually fol. by to or from): ideas alien to modern thinking.

9.	extraterrestrial.

Origin:
1300–50; ME < class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: italic; ">aliēnus, equiv. to *alies- (ali-, base of aliusother + -es- n. suffix) + -nus adj. suffix

Synonyms:
1. immigrant. 2. See stranger. 3. outcast. 7. exotic, foreign.

above from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alien

Alien was mentioned during my meeting with Paul this week. He used it to describe the way my cross processed image made him feel. I thought the work stuck out and made me look at the image slightly differently. After reading the definition I like the way it fits subtly into my concept of racial profiling.