Borat

“Borat” the movie is about a Kazakhstan who is a journalist and announcer. He comes to America to tell his home country about how great America is. He goes around America experimenting with different cultures to tell his country. He runs into many difficult obstacles. During his trip he falls in love with Pamela Anderson and tries to find her while he is traveling. With his lack of knowledge, he creates comical acts with doing the wrong things at the wrong time. People do not know how to take him because he is so different than what they are used to. I chose this movie because it is someone who is trying to fit in a place that he never dreamed of being.

I chose chapter two “Privilege, Oppression, and Difference.” The chapter talks about individualism and who we are. “The trouble around diversity, isn’t just that people differ from one another. The trouble is produced by a world organized in ways that encourage people to use difference to include or exclude, reward or punish, credit or discredit, elevate or oppress, value or devalue, leave alone or harass.” This is saying that people have grown up to believe in what they think they should be around. Everyone is different and act in different ways. But where you come from can play a large effect on who you get along with. Borat is from a complete different country with a different culture. He tries to fit in by using his culture on American people. This does not work well for him because the Americans are not used to his style and they do not want to interact with him. He has to learn a certain way to fit in. This is the whole part of the problem. He cannot be himself; he must convert to be able to fit in with people.

I did not enjoy this movie very much. I did not see much of the humor it brought. I thought the over exaggerating acts got annoying. The truth is people do need to convert to be able to fit into certain social groups. All social groups do not except all different styles people are. Some are accepted and other are not.