My Name a Borat

Looks like the upcoming Borat movie will cause a White House summit. Outraged over Sacha Baron Cohen's portrail of Kazakhstan, the nation's President Nazarbayev plans to meet with Bush to discuss the topic along with oil supply. In the upcoming movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" Baron Cohen depicts the Asian country as backwards and pokes fun at gypsies and women.

Now Sacha Baron Cohen makes fun of just about everybody possible: whites, blacks, homosexuals, the Jewish community, the list goes on and on. So what is the problem with his portrayal of Kazakhstan? Nothing. It is all in good fun and betting that all sorts of groups will get lampooned, the movie will be funny. It should offend everyone.

Cohen says his work is a 'dramatic demonstration of how racism feeds on dumb conformity as much as rabid bigotry'. He is Jewish, raised by Orthodox parents and still practices his religion so it would be hard to call him an anti-Semite. People need to lighten up sometimes and be able to laugh at themselves.

-Dippold

Update: ABC News reports that the topic of Borat will not be a part of the summit.

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