The Church of Seperation of Family and Faith

I often wonder about how an alien race wold perceive us. What of our practices would they find insane? Government, economics, race relations, eating habits? Conversely, what would they find to be genius? I wonder what they would be like, would they be perfected forms of life that have existed for so long that they have had time to answer all of life's profound questions, or would they be critical and overbearing tycoons quick to befriend us and quicker to take our resources to fuel their own purposes? I often have this image in my head of a spacecraft filled with aliens huddled around a TV set they had stolen from a garbage heap furiously taking notes as tapes of old Saturday Night Live clips showed Chris Farley imitate a motivational speaker.