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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His ‘Kazakh’ is mangled Czech!
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And in the first movie lots of hebrew!
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This is very common in many immigrants from Eastern Europe. There is a sweetness to the harsh conditions, a fondness is remembering the suffering.
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I watched the original Borat (opening rural scenes filmed in Romania) for the first time with Romanian Jews who'd fled for religious reasons. They died laughing and vouched for its accuracy at the same time.
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Jack Kirby's Latveria?
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Also, to add, the tradition begins in the writing of the great Yiddish humorist Shalom Aleichem, where it started as an urban rural divide, transplanted later to the New York/Europe divide
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These three places are fictional. It is another thing to joke at the expense of a real country. Also, Simon Rich invented Schlupsk, not Rogen.
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Yeah, it's all just good bittersweet fun and not dehumanizing at all.
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SCTV gave us Leutonia.
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