The Hierarchy of Foreignness classifies the relationships between humanity and all other creatures. The hierarchy is a five-tiered structure using various classifications to group all "strangers". It is first presented in the book History of Wutan in Trondheim by Valentine Wiggin, published under the pseudonym of Demosthenes. Within the story, the terms are said to have originated from the Norwegian language of the fictional planet Trondheim; however, they are actually based on Swedish words.
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