When the Greeks wrote that a God was born outside their lands,

nope, not necessarily. what do you even mean by "liked them less"? their gods had different areas of influence and had power over different things. it only makes sense that they had different places of origin. if Ares came from Thrace then it's probably implied that the Thracians were a warlike people.

It means that Ares was first worshipped in Thrace. As cultural exchange happened with new places, their local gods were incorporated into the larger pantheon.

btw, there is no such thing as "native" except to individual city states.

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Usually it meant that the ideas of rites and worship were originally foreign and were adopted by the Greeks somehow.

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You realize the Greeks constantly adopted Gods from the East, right? Europeans constantly adopted eastern gods, but easterners never adopted European gods.