Kazakhstan launches propaganda campaign against Borat

Telegraph UK ^ | Sept. 15 | Harry Mount

[Bushwacker777]

"The President of Kazakhstan is so enraged with the racist view of his country portrayed by the comic character Borat in a new film that his government is to pay for educational advertisements ahead of Nursultan Nazarbayev's trip to America this month.

In Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of Ali G, brings to the big screen the character who depicts Kazakhs as anti-Semitic, primitive, dirt-poor Communists.

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[Bushwacker777]

Wow, the leader of a primarily Muslim country is offended! This is odd.

[pcottraux]

I didn't even know there WAS such a place as Kazakhstan.

They should be happy to get this attention!

[DeweyCA]

The only thing that Kazkhstan is famous for is that the Russkies sent up their missiles from their Cosmodrome that was situated there. Other than that, it seem to be a place much like the other 'stans: dry and poor.

[Bushwacker777]

One of the former Soviet republics. Used to be mostly Russian but the numbers have dwindled in recent years. Now only a quarter of the population is Russian. Muslims and Kazak nationalists have been talking more and more about policies designed to drive out non-Kazaks (guess that would also mean non-Muslims).

[pcottraux]

Now who wouldn't make fun of a place like that?

[AZLiberty]

Next up: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour are receiving international criticism for making fun of Bali, Morocco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Zanzibar, and Rio de Janeiro. Disinterment is scheduled for the beginning of Ramadan.