There's an article in one of today's papers in which someone complains about Borat stereotyping Eastern Europeans.
Um...Not.
The stereotype is of Americans and how, as a country, we stereotype Eastern Europeans. If one reads the Borat story in Salon.com, one learns that each of the persons in the movie fell for the joke--each one of them believed the person to be what he and his "producers" claimed him to be, and they believed the story about the "documentary."
Cohen held a mirror up to ourselves, and we didn't recongize us.
The joke, perhaps, wasn't on us so much as it might be us.
Borat
Stereotypes
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Yes, Borat Stereotypes, but...
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