Borat

Borat Sagdiyev (Assumed Cyrillic: ????? ???????) is a fictional Kazakhstani media figure, created as satire and played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. He is featured in each episode of Da Ali G Show, doing satirical interviews with various people who apparently do not realize the show is fake. He has visited Britain and the USA. The character's supposed Kazakh origins are purely a plot device; the near-total lack of knowledge of the country among westerners enables the show's writers to create outrageous dialogue while preserving a semblance of credibility with the interviewee.

Background

Borat claims to be Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man. He is a top journalist for a television station, and visits foreign countries to record segments on their political systems and activities. He reports that he had been previously employed as a gypsy-catcher and as someone who assists farm animals in making "sexytime explosion", ostensibly for breeding purposes.

Related Topics:
Kazakhstan - Television station - Gypsy

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His hobbies include table tennis, wrestling, and shooting dogs. He can carry a woman against her will for one mile, and can hit a gypsy with a rock from fifteen metres away—ten if the gypsy isn't tied up.

Related Topics:
Table tennis - Wrestling - Gypsy

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Borat has expressed an admiration for Joseph Stalin, a "strong" and "powerful" man, and oddly enough resembles him in a superficial way.

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Family

Borat often discusses his family members with the people he interviews. Borat's sister is a prostitute, and his brother Bilo is mentally ill and must be locked behind a metal door. His relationship with his mother seems to be unpleasant, and Borat has commented that "she wishes she was raped by someone else."

Related Topics:
Prostitute - Mentally ill

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In one episode Borat reveals that he suffered a "very bad gypsy attack," in which his wife and plough were stolen and "they touch (his) horse in very bad way, it was depressed". Tragically, his first wife was accidentally shot in a field after a hunter mistook her for a bear. Thankfully, Borat was able to cope with the loss of his first wife and has remarried several times. Still, Borat's exceptional sexual virility has compelled him to maintain extra-marital relations with a girlfriend, a mistress, and at least one prostitute. Dubious interactions with his sister, as well as domesticated animals have led some to question Borat's sexual ethics (see incest, bestiality).

Related Topics:
Plough - Incest - Bestiality

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Beliefs

Borat strongly dislikes Jews, and was shocked to discover that American women have the right to vote, reciting the chain of importance as "God, Man, horse, dog, woman, then rat, then small 'krutzouli'" while talking with a female voter. He has visited a bar in Arizona where he sang a song about problems in his country. The subject quickly changed from transportation to Jews, with the lyrics "Throw the Jew down the well/so my country can be free/you must grab him by his horns/then we have a big party." While taking a self-defense class, Borat asked the instructor to teach him how to defend against the "Jew Claw," and then made a claw with his hand and had the instructor defend himself against it.

Related Topics:
Jews - Vote - Bar - Arizona

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He does not like "chocolate-faces" but likes kissing men.

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In some cases, Borat's guests embrace his anti-Semitism and misogyny by agreeing with him. Other guests attempt to explain American values instead.

Related Topics:
Anti-Semitism - Misogyny

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Borat also exhibits a tendency to engage in sexually inappropriate behavior, giving naked pictures of his wife to a female passerby, and asking men about the size of their "khram" (testicles, or, alternatively, penis) and whether or not he can touch them. Borat's own khram has been described as being thick "like can of Pepsi" ? impressive, though it has never been independently verified.

Related Topics:
Testicles - Penis

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