Word: kazakhstan
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Directed by Larry Charles Twentieth-Century...
...With Kazakhstan, Cohen has found the perfect fall guy; a nation so unknown that no one in the Western world minds his jokes, and just stiff enough themselves that they respond to his satire with lawsuits and press releases, only further fueling Cohen’s hype machine...
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...
...again sings the national anthem at a sports game; on the show it was a baseball game, here it’s a rodeo, and he actually sings a made-up Kazakh anthem to the tune of ours (one highlight: “Kazakhstan number one producer of potassium, other nations have inferior potassium”). These jokes are all still funny, but a satirist of Cohen’s skill could certainly have devised new tricks to play on Americans this time...
...well, and others don't. The difference is that if you're over 35, you think you have the right to keep your regrettable moments private. If you're under 35, you realize that everything is public now. Even if your racist rant were for a show in Kazakhstan, it would be on the Internet anyway. Never trust anyone under 35. Especially if he has a video camera...