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Demosthenes' Hierarchy of Foreignness is a means of classifying how "alien" (stranger) an individual is relative to a subject. It is organized in five tiers:

1.Utlanning, from the Swedish utlänning, "alien, foreigner (someone from another country)", are individuals who are of the same species as the subject, and are from a different region, city, or country. Culture is similar, communication between subject and Utlanning is generally easy.

2.Framlings, from the Swedish främling, "stranger, alien, foreigner, outsider", are individuals who are recognized as being of the same species as the subject, but who are from another planet. Culture and manners between Framlings may be different, but they are still similar.

3.A raman is an individual recognized as a sentient being who is of another species, but with whom communication is possible.

4.The varelse are true aliens: they are sentient beings, but are so foreign that no meaningful communication is possible with the subject. Only war with Varelse is justified.

5.Djur are non-sentient beings. They are capable of independent thought and action, but their mode of communication cannot relay any meaningful information to the subject because the djur itself lacks the capacity for rational thought and self-awareness.

- inspired by the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card

I don't know if you've seen Joyeux Noel, a movie about brotherhood formed over trenches by the French, English and German soldiers during WWI (actual event). In a lesson of humanity, they spent Christmas together, singing and drinking.

With my first article, I wanted to celebrate the true meaning of what has become a show of consumerism. In all truth, we are all war-hungry soldiers in a game but let us not forget that respect can be shown even to the worst enemy, for we are all Utlanning, not strangers or foreigners, but brothers traveling on the same road.