The phrase "alien descent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals whose ancestry or lineage originates from extraterrestrial beings or, in a more metaphorical sense, to describe someone from a different cultural or ethnic background.
Example: "The story revolves around a character of alien descent who struggles to fit into human society."
Alternatives: "extraterrestrial origin" or "non-human ancestry".
But Cao K. O, executive director of the Asian American Federation, also said that "Western" forms of therapy, like psychoanalysis, are alien to many of Asian descent.
For the scene of the Prometheus descent to the alien moon LV-223, visual effects art director Steven Messing referenced NASA imagery, including vortex cloud structures.
Blood, alien and otherwise.
When Gen. Suharto mandated the assimilation of "alien individuals" aka those of Chinese descent, it meant the the forced adoption of Indonesian-sounding names to replace original Chinese surnames, among others.
The microglia is altogether different, being of mesoderm in origin, a myeloid descent, and an invading alien to the brain.
In the evening hours of that same day, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBII) arrested selected "enemy" aliens, including 2,192 who were of Japanese descent.
Many were denied citizenship by laws that labelled Indonesians of Chinese descent who had lived here for generations as "aliens".
(Meanwhile, Americans of Italian and German descent were treated on a case-by-case basis, through the Enemy Alien Control Program, which affected six hundred thousand Italian-Americans and three hundred thousand German-Americans).
The film was essentially a burlesque of that central motif of Vietnam in American culture, the "heart of darkness" story: the descent of innocents into savagery, the dissolution of reason in a violent encounter with an incomprehensible alien society.
The game continues on the story from Descent: FreeSpace, once again thrusting the player into the role of a pilot fighting against the mysterious aliens, the Shivans.
