"the strangeness of a foreigner"
选择客居,可以说是一种对故土的不忠行为。
Their failures and their accomplishments are attributed simply to their foreignness.他们的失败还是成功都可以简单地归结到外国人这个身份上。
I did something bad and those people had every right to be upset, but why did my foreignness enter the equation?我确实做得不对,那些人这么抱怨也怪不得他们,但为什么一定要代入我外国人的身份呢?
When we misuse native language, we are in fact trying to reduce its element of foreignness.当我们误用时, 我们事实上是在试图减少它的外来成分.