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...that refusing to vote for a black or a female candidate on principle is a sign of deplorable bigotry (unfortunately, the same poll also proves that many Americans are still deplorable bigots). I think this moral imperative extends to homosexuals, although the country is belatedly establishing social norms against anti-gay bias. But what about religion? According to a 2003 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 38 percent of adult Americans would personally not vote for a Muslim. Is a refusal to vote for a member of a particular religion similarly unacceptable...
Most of the Kazakhstan shots were actually filmed in Romania, and their verisimilitude (“cars” pulled by horses, rampant incest, extreme love of ping pong and sunbathing) is slim to none. Ironically enough given the extreme anti-Semitism of his character, Cohen’s “Kazakh” dialogue throughout the film is actually Hebrew...
Borat himself is not immune from the racism and fear he exposes in Americans; his character is unrepentantly anti-Semitic, in a completely hyperbolic fashion. It’s apparent from the fictitious Kazakh “Running of the Jew” festival, and Borat’s terror at unknowingly accepting a room at a bed and breakfast run by a sweet old Orthodox Jewish couple, that he has no real idea what a “Jew?...
Cohen, who is Jewish, (his fiancée, “Wedding Crashers” star Isla Fisher, is converting for their upcoming wedding, as reported in The Evening Standard earlier this year) may easily escape allegations of anti-Semitism, but that alone doesn’t completely redeem his strategy. His thought process in “Borat” seems to be the following: if we present hyperbolic and laughable racism, viewers will see the absurdity underlying all harmful ethnic stereotypes...
Instructors in one sociology course will use anti-plagiarism software to catch copycats in their class, as part of a new pilot program run by Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group...