Borat-Attack

I just want to make a post on how much I love Borat. I really disagree with the people that say that Sasha Baron Cohen is strictly racist. First of all, he’s Jewish, and makes fun of Jewish people, in a way that I think, highlights stereotypes other ethnic groups have for them. I think it’s weird that we can say its okay for Russel Peters to base humor off stereotypes of East Indian people (he is of course East Indian) and that it’s not okay for Sasha Baron Cohen to do the same thing. I think the film is actually very smart, as it points out the stupidity and pride of Americans (Especially the scene where Borat's at the rodeo signing the anthem HAHA). As well, this may make me sound like a very ignorant North American, but before Borat, I had never heard of Kazakhstan. Now I actually know it exists, which brings me to my next point. I think that anyone who actually believes that Kazakhstan is actually how Borat portrays it is extremely naïve and kind of dumb. If those things Borat says about Kazakhstan were true, would we really be laughing, and would the film really have gotten the go-ahead, even in the U.S.? Clearly not.