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Barbarian

A person belonging to a culture different from one's own, usually regarded as primitive or uncivilised due to their ignorance of or nonconformity with classical standards; any outsider or non-native, especially a philistine. Derived from the discordant sound of foreign languages, originally non-Greek and later non-Roman.

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