>Sure is. It even has a word "foreign" in its dictionary, which seems to have become politically incorrect. I have no idea why. I know I'm myself a foreigner here, and my address back home is a foreign address when seen from here. For reasons unknown, it has become an international address, as in "we don't ship to international addresses". My family is accidentally international (we are a mix), but that has nothing to do with the address of our house, because the address remains the same when we're not there.
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>I'm content with being a foreigner, aka "legal alien", the word's OK with me. What else would I be called, "international national"? Just like the Americans of African origin are now given an intercontinental name, which then leaves the European Americans short - they don't get to have a special PC name.
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>So, to general public, I'd like to rephrase the question: what's wrong with the word "foreign"?

Nothing is wrong with the word. It is the general idea which causes impleasant thoughts to many, and makes them invent ever new words.

It seems to me to be a similar phenomenon as with words to describe sex, certain body parts, etc.; people feel uncomfortable with the general concept, and that makes the word "dirty". After a while, the new word becomes so ingrained into the culture, that a new word has to be found again...

I noticed something similar with words to describe household servants. It being a low-status job, new words are invented all the time. At least, that happens here in Bolivia, and I suspect it is the same all over the World.

Something similar has happened with certain minorities (like negroes), who were, for a long time, considered inferior.

And, I suspect the relations with foreigners cause some frictions and uncomfort, so you see the same phenomenon once again...