1066 quote

The Roman Conquest was, however, a Good Thing, since the Britons were only natives at that time.

1066 And All That, Walter Caruthers Sellar & Robert Julian Yeatman

"Going native..."

This must be what Grandmother called 'Going Native'. She thought that being foreign was a crime, or at least some sort of illness that you could catch by being out in the sun too much, or eating olives. 'Going Native' was giving in and becoming one of them. The way to not go native was to act exactly as if you were at home, whcih included dressing for dinner in heavy clothes and eating boiled meat and brown soup. Vegetables were 'unwholesome', and you should avoid fruit because 'you don't know where it's been'. That had always puzzled Daphne because, after all, how many places could a pineapple go?

Terry Pratchett, Nation