When most people hear the term alien they think of little green men with big eyes or Star Trek. But alien has another important meaning. It is a person who is foreign or excluded from the dominant culture in which they live. Immigrants are all aliens in the new countries where they settle. We looked at several different viewpoints on aliens and their experiences. ?Christmas Eve? is the story of a Mexican family in Texas. …showed first 75 words of 1131 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1131 total…black man?s equality to him. Although through out history whites have alienated blacks as savages and less than human, they can no longer try to keep them out of society. As we have seen in the pieces, alienation is very different for different people, but it always involves some sort of exclusion from a group or culture. Although some alienation is natural, forced alienation is one of the biggest barriers to an accepting society.