An anthropologist travelling in a remote part of the Philippines sought shelter in a shepherd’s cave. Far from seeming surprised at being greeted in a dialect of his own language by a white-skinned alien, the host merely asked if the visitor was from Oxford, to which the amazed anthropologist replied that he was. “Oh, we had one of you before,” said the shepherd, and laughed at the reminiscence. “We had such fun. He was always asking very rude questions, so we kept performing made-up dances, and we thought up new gods and forbidden things.”
