i didn't like the movie ... i didnt want to watch it but my friends wanted so i went
i didnt laugh in the whole movie .... i don't know everyone thought it was so funny but i didnt maybe ithe problem is in me ... but i just don't like him
Borat or Ali G or whatever ...

i think i prefer other kind of comedys maybe , or maybe im too dumb to understand it

oh theres on scene that i thought it was funny
when borat is joking with the clothes of the rappers ...

at least is the only thing i can reamember

I see there is a wealth of Kazakh videos on youtube, and also some cultural clashes with the Turks:

TurkishEvi i want this pritty bitch !!!!!!!!!
28Rustem you are fucking Turkish.You should be careful when you saying something...
TurkishEvi kazkh girls , the best in bed !!
SonicBlunt turkey is the toilet paper, with what im cleaning my ass after shitting on ur whole beeing
TurkishEvi the mongols and the turks have a common ancester, they come from the strongest sperm.

I got nuthin' to say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGK1gwCa1yk&feature=related

With all this focus on the Kazakhs, I fear I've been neglecting the Uzbeks:

kazaklilar bizi, yani türkiye türklerine karsilar. rus babanin kollunun altina girmisler ve halinlerinden memnunlar. birakin su kazaklari, bizden kendilerini görmüyorlar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I still haven't seen the whole movie, but I think I've seen enough clips to get the idea. I get the impression that Borat was interacting with basically nice, polite people that were trying to be hospitable to a foreign visitor, and also trying to be nonjudgmental and accepting of his customs and beliefs, however different they might seem from their own.

They were also trying to avoid any unpleasant scenes in front of a camera crew filming a documentary about a foreign visitor, and Borat's aim was to make this situation as uncomfortable as possible for the people trying to be nice to him.

It made me think of a quote from Mark Twain: "When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job-lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life."

I could see the reaction of the proprietress in the bar where he sang "Throw the Jew down the well." She looked up startled and apprehensive, and appeared to be considering how she could get him off stage without a scene. In the end, she clapped along with the rest off them, she probably figured she'd get off easiest by just letting him finish and leave.

She probably also noted that he seemed quite innocent about his anti-semitism--having evidently been raised that way--and figured that someone raised in a culture were that was acceptable was unlikely to understand any admonitions from her. So as long as no one in the bar seemed to be offended, she just let it go and pretend it never happened. And, after all, he was a guest; you have to make allowances for guests.

Cruel irony, the way it turned out. She could have strode over to the stage, told Borat she'd have none of that in her establishment and ordered him off the stage. If she did that, the whole episode probably would have ended up on the cutting room floor. Too bad she didn't know that.

I've never seen the film and honestly have no desire to see it. My friends tell me that it's hilarious, but......meh...

I laughed very much.

But, if a friendly, smiling Kazakhstani ever comes to visit your saloon in Texas, and says he'd like to sing a few songs and make a film of the experience, you'll run him off the premises with a shot gun, right?

If I had those Fancy Quoting privileges like some other posters have I would "quote" Pinhedz'z second to last post and maybe even his last post and hit the 'Agree' button. But I don't so I won't.

I've been meaning to pay more attention to the Tadjiks. Shabnam Surayo seems to be a rising star, what with all these concerts in Europe and all.

They say she's very big in Afganistan, although she does not seem to own a burkha.



Here she is at her day job at the car wash. I can make out the first two lines of the song:

"In Russian it's Ya tebya lyublyu,
In English it's I love you..."

Presumably she gets around to saying it in Persian: