The point of the Borat character is that Americans are willing to believe kazakhs are actually like that. It's such an obviously absurd character that it is equally absurd that the average person just accepts it at face value. He's not making fun of kazakhs, he's making fun of people who don't immediately call him out as the clown he is.
he is making fun of kazakhs, half the fucking movie (admittedly I've only completed the new one) is for the audience and making jokes at kazakhstans expense. The plot parts which take place in kazakhstan and connecting tissue is fucked, Borat being marvelled by modern technology is fucked, so on and so forth.
if it were all bits where SBC plays funny foreigner and says rude things and americans agree or go along with it that'd be fine---but he surrounded it with racist context completely unnecessarily.
The point of the Borat character is that Americans are willing to believe kazakhs are actually like that. It's such an obviously absurd character that it is equally absurd that the average person just accepts it at face value. He's not making fun of kazakhs, he's making fun of people who don't immediately call him out as the clown he is.
he is making fun of kazakhs, half the fucking movie (admittedly I've only completed the new one) is for the audience and making jokes at kazakhstans expense. The plot parts which take place in kazakhstan and connecting tissue is fucked, Borat being marvelled by modern technology is fucked, so on and so forth.
if it were all bits where SBC plays funny foreigner and says rude things and americans agree or go along with it that'd be fine---but he surrounded it with racist context completely unnecessarily.