It means that it was not a thing he would like or approve of. [He thinks for a moment.] I'm sorry, I can't think of the Serbian equivalent. My Serbian is passable, but nothing more.

Perhaps their first step was simply to humanize us. [A pause. He's still not used to aliens.] That is perhaps not the right word. Rather, make us individuals instead of a faceless, anonymous crowd. After all, the first step in getting people not to care about another group of people is to portray that group as inhuman, unknowable, other. You see it throughout history. Perhaps this is to counteract that, by showing us as varied individuals.