Depends. Are the aliens hot?
Are you into Ferengi? ;-)
I’m not, but for a few bars of gold-pressed latinum I could be.
no we would try to nuke them
Trumpists would label them illegal intellectual elitists and hate them.
No, we would instead make interspecies pornography of humans boning the aliens and further diminish our status in their eyes. Dommy mommies scoffing at the entire planet. It would be a diplomatic catastrophe.
No we’d start pretending we’re even less sophisticated.
Hey! I’m flying my space ship ova’ere!
Just send them all the alien movies where humans win, call them documentaries and watch them run.
Doubtful but I bet a lot of people would start saying paintings don’t really exist.
No, we’d nuke those fuckers.
Whose definition of fine art? This could be an amazing rebranding opportunity
Trump will tell them that he is the most sophisticated president ever, even when he loses and ends up in the psych ward.
barbarians
Their assessment would depend heavily on chance: Which continent do they look at?
For your question, would we be pretending, it is the same.
For the aliens, barbarian is considered predominantly rasicst people. So most the world is considered barbarians.