Word: laughingstocks
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...explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended from immigrants in France's suburbs - made allusion to France's "white-black-Arab" soccer side that won the 1998 World Cup and became an icon of French social integration. " Today, [the team is] black-black-black, and it's the laughingstock of Europe," Finkelkraut complained...
...Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan serves the same purpose. He is making fun not of Kazakhs but of arrogant, ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures. Dominik Mauer Augsburg, Germany...
...Shawn Fitzgerald Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S. Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan serves the same purpose. He is making fun not of Kazakhs but of arrogant, ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures. Dominik Mauer Augsburg, Germany The Measure of a Nation Your story...
Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. The same goes for Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan: he is making fun not of Kazakhs but of ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures...
...Once a laughingstock for its poorly made cars, Hyundai Motors has in recent years boosted quality and won fans in key markets such as the U.S. and China. But the fast-growing South Korean automaker-the world's seventh-largest when combined with its affiliate Kia Motors-was blindsided last week from an unexpected quarter: its 68-year-old chairman, Chung Mong Koo, was arrested on charges of embezzling $100 million and breach of trust relating to $300 million in company losses...