"foreign habit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to describe a habit or behavior that is unusual or different from what is typically seen in a particular culture or country. Example: His constant need to apologize for everything is a foreign habit to me. In my culture, we rarely apologize unless we truly mean it.
I figured this was another of those foreign habits — like eating horse meat — that I'd observe from a respectful distance.
Spending the day at the vineyard as part of a long-weekend visiting friends in the South, she doesn't believe she has adopted foreign habits.
Not long ago, when I was traveling around Europe with a group of Chinese tourists, I came to recognize a certain tentative tone of voice that the guide adopted when explaining exotic foreign habits.
On the same day as David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, was encouraging his compatriots to holiday closer to home came news of strikes that could perversely help realise his vision.In a wide-ranging speech about inbound tourism Mr Cameron wondered how to wean Britons off their foreign habits.
"The Buddha in the Attic" is, in a sense, a prelude to Otsuka's previous book, revealing the often rough acclimatization of a generation of farm laborers and maids, laundry workers and shop clerks whose husbands would take them for granted and whose children would be ashamed of their stilted English and foreign habits.
There are comparisons to be made with the Premier League – the pluses being that English football attracts the best in the world and earns enormous amounts of money, as do the individual players; the minuses being that we start to neglect homegrown talent, team spirit may decline, and there are some nasty "foreign" habits, such as diving, spitting and biting.
We may be able to kick the foreign oil habit with synthetic fuels, but this is not a cure that is free from side effects.
Similarly, it is virtually impossible to view foreign dignitaries' habit of lodging at Trump's Washington hotel as anything other than an attempt to curry favor with the president.
Weaning the United States from its foreign oil habit will help protect Americans by drying up the funding for terrorists and, at the same time, promoting our climate change goals, since the only way to get off oil is to invest massively in renewable energy and other technologies that don't rely on fossil fuels.
It has been estimated that we could fund the changes necessary to turn our world around by shifting just 1/6th of the world's military budget into programs that support energy and materials efficiency combined with a huge investment in renewable energy technology to get us off the foreign oil habit and put the brakes on global climate change.
