tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21578561.post-8066722432815461422006-11-05T23:29:00.000+01:002006-11-14T22:59:42.027+01:00<a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/833/2634/1600/great%20success.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 185px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/833/2634/320/great%20success.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >I realised that I always post on serious subjects like happiness etc.<br />Since I've been a great fan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen">Sacha Baron Cohen</a> (AKA Ali G / Bruno / <a href="http://www.borat.tv/">Borat</a>) for ages now, I thought this was the best time to tell you about my view of his unique humour now that his <a href="http://www.boratmovie.com/email/showtimes.html">movie</a> has been released worldwide.<br />As you might know by now, Borat jokes about everything from patriotism to women, gays and Jews, many find it offensive but most laugh terribly at his amazing humour and at the way he manages to bring out the worst in people. (</span><span style=";font-size:100%;" lang="EN-GB" >In the <a href="http://www.boratmovie.com/email/showtimes.html">movie</a> he enters a weapons store and asks for the best gun to kill a Jew, the shopkeeper without even blinking recommends a .45<o:p></o:p></span><span style=";font-size:100%;" >)<br />I've always believed humour was one of those things that couldn’t be controlled and should be free of all censorship, who are we at the end of the day to say that something is or isn’t appropriate. Hiding racism and anti-Semitism, burying them as if they didn’t exist at all in our "civilised" countries fails at countering them because sadly many people are racists and anti-Semites. The best way to get rid of these demons is to show how ridicule they are and Borat does an amazing job at that. By portraying himself as a racist idiot he shows the ridicule of racism, the shear intellectual void that surrounds it, the imbecile’s vision of a world divided not by personal growth or achievement but by pure hate based on irrational, unscientific rumours where Jews have claws and black people are lazy thieves.<br />As a “vanilla face” that knows and loves Borats talent I encourage everyone of you to go and see the movie and sadly, you might realise that there are probably some of the stereotypes in it that you might believe in yourself and that you never thought where this unworthy of your intellect.<br /><br />Good night and happy time!!!</span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21578561-806672243281546142?l=samosa-blog.blogspot.com'/></div>74Z4http://www.blogger.com/profile/07575119249206196890noreply@blogger.com6