Spotting Aliens

7.7.10

This project is about spotting and defining social aliens.

What I want to know, [within the context of urban India (Bangalore)]:

What is the 1st association people have to the word ‘alien’/ concept of alien. Are aliens good or bad? What behaviour/ expression/ attributes are used to make the distinction between the usual and alien? How would they spot an alien? If they were an alien how would they disguise themselves?

Mr. Ravindra had pointed out that the word ‘alien’ is itself rather alien (being English and hence foreign). I need to use vernacular words when asking questions, to get more meaningful answers. The word does have a lot of associations in English itself.

(Adj) foreign, conflicting, contrary, estranged, exotic, extraneous, extrinsic, inappropriate, incompatible, incongruous, opposed, remote, separate, unusual (Antonyms) akin, appropriate, native, proper (Noun) foreign being, blow in, floater, foreigner, greenhorn, guest, immigrant, incomer, interloper, intruder, invader, migrant, newcomer, noncitizen, outsider, refugee, settler, squatter, stranger, visitor, weed (Antonyms) citizen, countryman, national, native, settler (Related Adj) alien, alienigenate, allochthonous, exaliotriote, exceptional, exclude, extraneous, foreign, fremd, heterochthonous, Inadmissible, tramontane, ulterior, ultramontane