Russia's suspicion of foreigners persisted through the centuries.
Mexico's interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, insisted last week: "It is designed to protect the rights and physical integrity of foreigners passing through the country".
Afghanistan's barren hills have received the bones of countless foreigners down through the centuries — invaders, traders whose camel caravans linked Asia to Europe, soldiers of fortune, and men-who-would-be-kings.
Even during Soviet times the authorities respected this place, despite its deep religious associations, turning the Pokrovsky monastery into a way station for foreigners escorted through the Golden Ring, an arc of old historic cities north and east of Moscow.
But O'Reilly seems to have made a certain calculation: that no one he cares about will look at film of foreigners running through the streets — protesters shouting angry things, people in strange uniforms firing devices that make a lot of noise — and not feel that it's something from the foreign-war dimension.
Kymlicka concurs with the Marxist Slavoj Žižek in decrying the ascendency of "neoliberal multiculturalism", which he associates with a hollowing out of citizenship rights and justice-based multiculturalism in favour of the inclusion of minorities and foreigners through assuring mere "equal access to the market" in a globalising world.
The balance of payments of Japan, for example, records the various ways in which yen are made available to foreigners through Japanese purchases of foreign goods, expenditures of Japanese tourists abroad, donations, loans, etc.
The naive and innocent foreigner wanders through the America of Wenders' Alice in the Cities (1974) and Paris, Texas (1984), and Jarmusch's Down By Law (1986) and Mystery Train (1989), searching for an existential authenticity behind the illusion.
