This implication of a certain hazy foreignness about Obama isn't new for Romney .

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They create programmes about exotic wildlife and locations that can be shown anywhere, foreignness being part of their appeal.

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It may be this sense of a return to childhood, consciously or not, that gives the pleasure of foreignness its edge of embarrassment.

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An antipathy, however mild, to foreignness is indispensable to the creed of localism, which seeks to make our economic worlds more intelligible by shrinking them.

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Even so, all other things being equal, foreignness is intrinsically stimulating.

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The well-off, the artistic, the bored, the adventurous went abroad. (The broad masses went too, as empires, steamships and railways made travel cheaper and easier.) Foreignness was a means of escape physical, psychological and moral.

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The golden age of genteel foreignness began.

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