Slightly offtopic, but since you seem to take a small offense, or at least, use it as fuel for your argument....
Alien is simply a historical term. It is derived from the latin term alienus which means something that belongs to another. So an alien to a country represented someone who belonged to another country. There is nothing rude or egregious about that label....
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Slightly offtopic, but since you seem to take a small offense, or at least, use it as fuel for your argument....
Alien is simply a historical term. It is derived from the latin term alienus which means something that belongs to another. So an alien to a country represented someone who belonged to another country. There is nothing rude or egregious about that label....
As a former "alien" myself, I was never offended by this. It's a technical term.
Woooho, I´m an alien, I´m a legal alien