Foreign
Foreign adjective - Being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own.
Usage example: more Americans should take an interest in foreign languages
Strange is a synonym for foreign in unfamiliar topic. In some cases you can use "Strange" instead an adjective "Foreign", when it comes to topics like behaviour, experience, alien, native. popular alternative
Nearby Word: foreigner
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- And also Night Watch, where the strange and foreign country is his own native Ankh-Morpork — but thirty years previously in his past...
Source: Strange Cop in a Strange Land - Since Sweden in general views the Catholic Church as strange and foreign, and the film was released in the backwash of a Pedophile Priest scandal... it fits.
Source: Christianity Is Catholic - Particularly of note is the Doctor's home world of Gallifrey, and the species seen in "Voyage of the Damned"; for a group coming to visit Earth's "strange and foreign culture" they certainly seemed like the British upper class.
Source: Inexplicable Cultural Ties
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