Trumpists would label them illegal intellectual elitists and hate them.
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
No, lol I think the lemming saying we would try to nuke them is spot on but jokes aside most people wouldn’t give a rats arse about these new aliens and only a very small minority would try to create art that appeals to their tastes- just to see if they can cater to their standards.
And sell it to them. Capitalism gonna capitalize
What would an advanced alien race even consider fine art?
Six dimensional termite mounds?
Or they could see in a smaller range of frequencies, so what looks like a plain white room to us is a masterpiece of modern art to them?
Based on our human history of snob thinking they’re better and then enslave those they think are barbarian, yes, but not before they enslave most of us and then spare some.
The aliens would judge us for torturing and murdering the animals for selfish reasons.
So yeah most people would pretend to be vegan so that the aliens may talk to them.
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.
