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Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke. They were a vehicle to poke fun at ignorant westeners.
by gherkinnn 7y ago
Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke.
They were a vehicle to poke fun at ignorant westeners.
- zozbot234 7y ago> Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke. How could one tell?
- gherkinnn 7y agoA few things - Kazakh people (mostly) look nothing like Borat - It was clearly (to me, a European) set in eastern Europe - Cohen played on our ignorance to make us believe Rumania is Kazakhstan - Everybody he encounters thereafter is American - Cohen uses Borat to mock stereotypical American[0] behaviour - I am aware just how much juvenile humour there was too [0] applies to most places, but the film is set in America