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
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