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Nevertheless, the movie would not have worked as well if Borat were merely a generic Third Worlder who did not remind audiences of a Muslim in any way whatsoever. If Borat had been an African tribesman, people may have found his backwardness funny, but not in the same way. Americans would have felt a little guilty laughing at this generic Third Worlder, whereas Americans felt no guilt in laughing at Borat...
...Tunis or Bogota than in Berlin or Ottawa. The explanation for pop's seductiveness seems less complicated in Senegal or Bangladesh: America is equated with prosperity and modernism, and pop connotes America. A Tina Turner song playing on the transistor can mitigate (even as it fosters) a Third Worlder's sense of backwater isolation. Charles Kasinga, the executive at McCann Erickson (Kenya) Ltd. in charge of the Coke account, practices applied semiotics. "There is a perceived way of life embedded in each bottle of Coke," Kasinga says. "Coke is modern, with it." Repp Kananga, a young Kenyan, wears his PHILADELPHIA...
Also, Fernandez believes that looking at problems from an American perspective often reverses the vantage point most foreigners naturally have. Citing the study of energy policy, he says, "For a Third Worlder from an oil producing country, the goals of U. S. energy policy are contrary to his own country's. It's like looking at things from the other side of the barrel...
...making this reformulation? A handful of liberal theologians? Rifkin himself admits the change is virtually unnoticed. One spectacular example is Billy Graham's conversion from nuke-the-Russian-Antichrist-cold-warrior to disarmament-peacenik-one-worlder, but Graham knows he is in a very small minority. Is the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship likely to abandon the profit margin for a few more trees and whales just because Rifkin thinks the charismatics should pick up this redefinition as their marching banner? If anything, the Pentecostal revival is a reaction against the new values, against social innovations and moral liberalizations...
...Crimson number two player, future Q-Worlder Howard Sands, fell to John Hare, 7-5, 6-4. After the match, Sands could offer no explanations for the one upset of the day except, "He just played better than...