It’s not an anti-Muslim movie. The fictional Kazakhstan is not a Muslim country, just as the residents of the fictional Kazakhstan have no physical resemblance to Asians. Borat’s Kazakhstan is a made-up Eastern European country that trades in stereotypes of pagan villagers, regardless of what the real Kazakhstan is like.
We find this funny because we are Jews. Jews have always laughted at pain…cause you can only laugh at something that large.
The real question is should we laugh this loud at such insider material.
Something to think about.
EV wrote: “The fictional Kazakhstan is not a Muslim country, just as the residents of the fictional Kazakhstan have no physical resemblance to Asians.”
Actually EV, Kazakhs don’t have one physical look, it’s not truly an “asian” country because part of it is European, and there are plenty of Christians there:
From Wikipedia:
“The population is estimated to be 53% ethnic Kazakhs and 30% ethnic Russians, with an amazingingly rich array of other groups represented, including Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Chechens, and Uyghurs – that is, virtually any group that has ever come under the Russian sphere of influence. Many minorities such as Russian Germans, Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians and Russian political opponents of the regime had been deported to Kazakhstan in 30-ies and 40-ies of the last century by Stalin. […] The main religious groups are Sunni Islam, Russian Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.”
If some Kazakh made a movie like this about Israelis and made Israelis out to be bigots, but claimed it was a “fictional” israel I doubt you would buy that line
If some Kazakh made a movie like this about Israelis and made Israelis out to be bigots, but claimed it was a “fictional†israel I doubt you would buy that line
Guess we’ll, um, have to wait for that one.
Meanwhile, in the real world, re resemblances: check out Kazakh Idol host Alan Cherkasov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cherkasov…
at least someone is admitting that it’s an anti-muslim movie
It’s not an anti-Muslim movie. The fictional Kazakhstan is not a Muslim country, just as the residents of the fictional Kazakhstan have no physical resemblance to Asians. Borat’s Kazakhstan is a made-up Eastern European country that trades in stereotypes of pagan villagers, regardless of what the real Kazakhstan is like.
We find this funny because we are Jews. Jews have always laughted at pain…cause you can only laugh at something that large.
The real question is should we laugh this loud at such insider material.
Something to think about.
Pissed Off Liberal Jew,
Yes, we should.
EV wrote: “The fictional Kazakhstan is not a Muslim country, just as the residents of the fictional Kazakhstan have no physical resemblance to Asians.”
Actually EV, Kazakhs don’t have one physical look, it’s not truly an “asian” country because part of it is European, and there are plenty of Christians there:
From Wikipedia:
“The population is estimated to be 53% ethnic Kazakhs and 30% ethnic Russians, with an amazingingly rich array of other groups represented, including Ukrainians, Uzbeks, Germans, Chechens, and Uyghurs – that is, virtually any group that has ever come under the Russian sphere of influence. Many minorities such as Russian Germans, Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians and Russian political opponents of the regime had been deported to Kazakhstan in 30-ies and 40-ies of the last century by Stalin. […] The main religious groups are Sunni Islam, Russian Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.”
If some Kazakh made a movie like this about Israelis and made Israelis out to be bigots, but claimed it was a “fictional” israel I doubt you would buy that line
If it was a fictionally Buddhist Israel populated by black people for instance, yeah, I’d buy that line.
If some Kazakh made a movie like this about Israelis and made Israelis out to be bigots, but claimed it was a “fictional†israel I doubt you would buy that line
Guess we’ll, um, have to wait for that one.
Meanwhile, in the real world, re resemblances: check out Kazakh Idol host Alan Cherkasov:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cherkasov…