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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Oct 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Benjy Sarlin

    This is right. Borat & his "Kazakhstan" are a complicated sophisticate/rube comedy. We the sophisticates in audience know that Borat is absurd stereotype & comedy is at rubes he interacts with who take him literally.https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1320746978007986182 …

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    Benjy SarlinVerified account @BenjySarlin
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    The intent is also more complicated. The whole Borat character is also a parody of what ignorant Americans would think a post-Soviet country would look like like more than it is a parody of any actual country, similar to Team America.
    8:43 AM - 26 Oct 2020
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Oct 2020

        I'd add that a lot of Borat's "Kazakhstan" belongs to a particular tradition of bittersweet Jewish comedy about memories of old country that was unvarnishedly human, rough, & at times oppressive. Al Capp's Lower Slobovia, Fiddler on the Roof, Seth Rogen's Schlupsk

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      2. Keith Bloomquist‏ @kdb150 26 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Borat is to be taken seriously but not literally?

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      3. Gerkinov  🌻‏ @gerkinov 26 Oct 2020
        Replying to @kdb150 @HeerJeet

        Thank God he's not running for public office ... huh?

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      2. Benjy Sarlin‏Verified account @BenjySarlin 26 Oct 2020
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        That's what makes using a real country rather than a fake one so important to the joke. It's him openly declaring Americans will know so little about Kazakhstan that he can get away with saying literally anything about the place while he's here.

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      3. bernard_brah‏ @Bernard_Brah 26 Oct 2020
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        What is the capital of Kazakhstan? Don't look it up.

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      1. peer reviewed tweets‏ @peerreviewtweet 26 Oct 2020
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        I actually think a lot of his interactions consist of people being too polite to point out in person that he is being absurd.

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      2. Stuart‏ @LeftHandStu 26 Oct 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I mean, that argument does have a couple of holes in it considering the number of jokes being made at the expense of Borat's nationality when there are no rubes being interacted with.

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      2. Gerkinov  🌻‏ @gerkinov 26 Oct 2020
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        Too real ... huh?

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