How barbarian were the Barbarians?

[VespilloAD64]

From what I gather and make out from all sources of Roman literay is basically that if you are not 1) Citizen of free birth 2) from Rome or Italy? you are barbaric. They tended to think of you as barbarian because you did not live by there customs.Like the Druids,Germanic's,Gauls even though in some ways were just as civilised as the Romans, the romans don't see it that way.The up side is that once they romanised the conquered they adopted and adapted the barbarians culture into there own.Contradictory and hypercritical! thats our beloved Romans thats why I love em.