Xayol
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| 31 Mar 2016 11:45 PM |
| Where are the stereotypes of Kazakhstan even coming from? Did the makers of the movie just make them up on the spot? Seems like it. |
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| 31 Mar 2016 11:49 PM |
| what things in the movie struck you as painfully wrong?? |
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Xayol
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| 31 Mar 2016 11:59 PM |
All of it. Seemed like all the stereotypes were made up randomly. Some of the ones that stood out the most was, the anti-Semitism stereotype, and the anti-Uzbek stereotype. Anti-Semitism is probably more prominent in the United States than it is in Kazakhstan, to be honest. They really don't care about Jews. And Kazakhs and Uzbeks love each other. Actually, Central Asia (the "stan countries") gets along very well. And another thing. No Kazakh was spoken in the film at all. I'm fairly certain the greeting Borat did was actually Polish (jak sie masz?).
It seemed more of an anti-American film than it did an anti-Kazakh film to tell you the truth. |
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| 01 Apr 2016 12:00 AM |
| or maybe it's just a comedy film, with no "Anti-[country]" bias at all? |
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Xayol
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| 01 Apr 2016 12:04 AM |
| It was a good movie nonetheless. |
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Xayol
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| 01 Apr 2016 12:05 AM |
"or maybe it's just a comedy film, with no "Anti-[country]" bias at all?"
Seemed anti-American to me. It was a straight up mockery of American ignorance about the world. |
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| 01 Apr 2016 12:06 AM |
| It's been a while since I last saw it, but I don't remember anything obviously hateful toward America in it |
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Xayol
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| 01 Apr 2016 12:08 AM |
| Gotta take a deeper look then. It's not outright anti-American, but it seems to me that it's a parody of American ignorance and prejudice, not of Kazakhstan itself. Maybe you wouldn't get it if you didn't know anything about Kazakhstan. Everything in it was made up and seemed like how an American would imagine it. |
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