Cossacks aren’t Kazakhs, even though the two words in Russian are very similar. They’re ethnically very different and from different places.
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Cossacks started out as Russian serfs who ran away to the borderlands with the Muslims, such as the Kazakhs, and adopted a steppe horse warrior mode of life from their Muslim rivals, while staying Christian. Later, they were semi-reintegrated into Russia as Czar's light cavalry.
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I don't doubt this is true, but I don't think the Cossacks had much contact with Kazakhs: other than during the Russian expansion into Central Asia, they were a long way apart. The etymology of Cossack and Kazakh share the same root, though.
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Borat the character is definitely, at heart, a Pollack joke. But I'm sure once he became Kazakh, there were Armenians in LA (such as Ken Davitian) who helped add some anti-Turkic gloss too for good measure. Really interesting combo.
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If you listen to Borat supposedly speaking Kazakh, it’s actually Polish expressions Mr. Cohen learned from his grandma...https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Borat-speak-Polish …
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His companion speaks in Armenian too.
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Nah, he wouldn't have done it; too much of a coward. Many Cossacks in diaspora with fists ready to fly. Borat is a Kazakh from Kazakhstan-far away and easy to mock. And the Romanian village where he filmed "Kazakhstan" sued him for lying & exploiting it. Bad PR for the cohanim...
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Kazakhs and Cossacks are not the same thing.
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The actor who plays Borat's companion played an Armenian Southern California gangster in
@SHO_RayDonovan, and an Armenian Southern California businessman in@CobraKaiSeries.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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He is playing the old routine of "smart/sophisticated jew vs. stupid/peasant goy" thus feeding the 'ethnic-ego' of his audience. With the colors reversed it would be condemned as racism and anti-semitism.
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Mr. Sailer, do you have a reading list anywhere?
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Lmao ~ entertainment-Jews have clowned ( Houdini ~ Jewrywood is epitomy of George du Maurier's 1895 Jew-fictional-character Svengali ) for a living for over a century in gentile society
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