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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by zozbot234 on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:22AM (#21604905)
Yup, the controversial scenes in Borat's "home village" were actually shot in rural Romania. But I'm not sure that stereotyping poor, rural Romanians is any better.
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by EliRivers on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:34AM (#21605855)
Romanians, too, were not the target.
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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by gherkinnn on Friday November 22, 2019 @08:30AM (#21605354)
Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke.

They were a vehicle to poke fun at ignorant westeners.

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by zozbot234 on Friday November 22, 2019 @09:53AM (#21606028)
> Neither Romanians nor Kazakhs were the but of the joke.

How could one tell?

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Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuck... by gherkinnn on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:57AM (#21606720)
A few things

- Kazakh people (mostly) look nothing like Borat

- It was clearly (to me, a European) set in eastern Europe

- Cohen played on our ignorance to make us believe Rumania is Kazakhstan

- Everybody he encounters thereafter is American

- Cohen uses Borat to mock stereotypical American[0] behaviour

- I am aware just how much juvenile humour there was too

[0] applies to most places, but the film is set in America

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