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stranger collapse: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

persona non grata collapse: a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent

parochialism collapse: a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish

outsider collapse: a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win

apartheid collapse: a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa

insulation collapse: the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity; the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel"

quarantine collapse: isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease; enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease; place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"

segregation collapse: the act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury"; a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups; (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes

isolation collapse: the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others; a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"; a feeling of being disliked and alone; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it; a state of separation between persons or groups

alien collapse: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"; not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"; transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"

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