Hierarchy of exclusion
The Hiérarchie of Exclusion ( Hierarchy off Alienated ) is a concept drawn from the Cycle of Ender, a series of novels by Orson Scott Card. It classifies the relations between the Humanité and all the other creatures. This hierarchy on four levels makes it possible to classify the " étrangers". It is presented for the first time in the book Histoire of Wotan to Trondheim by Valentine Wiggin, published under the pseudonym of Démosthène. The origin of the terms comes from the Swedish used on the planet Trondheim.
The Hierarchy
The Utlännings are the foreigners of the same species and the same world. For example, if somebody met a person living in another city or another country on Earth, this person would be regarded as a utlänning' . It should be noted that this hierarchy is proposed in a universe where each planet at summer colonized by only one culture or nation; in our universe a utlänning would be a compatriot.
The Framlings are the foreigners members of the same species but who come from another world. For example, for land, to meet a human Martian would be to meet a framling . Once again a real equivalent would be somebody sharing a common culture: Western, African, Arab… The differences are real but relatively alleviating.
The Ramen (singular Raman ) are the foreigners of another species with which it is possible for Humanity to communicate and of living in peace.
The Varelses are the foreigners of another intelligent species with which it is not possible to coexist peacefully. This coexistence is not possible for example because of impossibility of communicating or because the simultaneous survival of the two species seems impossible.
Significance
This hierarchy is important in the cycle of Ender because the distinction between Raman is varelse is what makes it possible to design the war and even the extermination like legitimate morally. If a species is Raman the war must be prevented whereas if it is varelse it is simply about the survival of Humanity and self-defense.
The distinction can also be very subjective and the character of Quara in the books interprête thus the distinction: All that I can say it is that the intelligence is the intelligence. Varelse is right a word invented by Valentine to say Intelligence-that-we-have-decide-of-to destroy, and Raman wants to say Intelligence-that-we-have-not-still-decide-of-not to kill .
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