Analysis: Reassessing the racial stereotyping in 'Borat'

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At a moment when people are reassessing racial and cultural caste it's worth revisiting the legacy of Sacha Baron Cohen's errant, mustachioed character, Borat, who returned in a sequel, writes Brandon Tensley

While critics largely embraced Larry Charles' 2006 mockumentary"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," about a fictional Kazakh reporter played by Baron Cohen, many Kazakh viewers denounced the movie's cartoonish portrayal of their country, which covers swaths of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

With"Borat," she said, it felt as if Baron Cohen had arbitrarily chosen a"foreign-sounding" country in order to say something profound about faraway America. Meanwhile, those from Kazakhstan were left to deal with the cultural course-correction that attends a film such as"Borat."Aisana Ashim, 29, was equally direct in her criticism of the movie.As a journalist and an activist, she said that she wants to shine a light on the issues beleaguering Kazakhstan.

 

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Sacha is about to get cancelled

Says who are racially profiling and stererotyping people they wish to judge unfairly! 🤣🤣🤣

wait until Rudy is done with this goof, think wat he did is gonna go unpunished, pretty sure he just fkd with wrong man, be nice to see this social terrorists locked up next time hes seen in public. fkn menace to everywhere he goes, not even an american ffs

it's been a while since I cried so hard, my stomach still hurts from watching borat 2. Can't wait to watch it again!

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around

Just a Democrat using culture appropriation to make money.

Will you vote Biden and help Chinese Communist Party to let this happen to your daughters and sons? The whole Biden family is from hell! Biden

I KNOW ITS ANTI TRUMP BUT THATS HIT IS FUNNY AS HELL.....

Common sense is common with reasonable people. Not the Dems like AOC. See for yourself to see its absurdity.

CNN and the ‘Fake’ media mob are driving a hate based narrative - classic ‘identity’ Politics! Simply, make everone isolate, then they hate the other! But, Americans don’t buy it! America has brotherhood and Liberty 🗽! TRUMP brought back jobs to America - opportunity for ALL 🇺🇸

(Yawn)

this is stupid. It's like the soviet's reinventing history. but then, media and liberals want to destroy history, not reflect on it

You all have the worst time to go to commercial. WTF!!!

Now is schilling for Borat because it helps their masters You can’t make this shit up.

Please stop.

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