Cultural Appropriation 101: Borat
Today in class we are watching some Borat clips to talk about some basic issues in the politics of representation. Here they are: “Borat Trailer”:http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/borat/trailer/ “Ad for Borat Soundtrack”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXGMfNRwc1g “StopBorat.com”:http://stopborat.com/ — a fake anti-Borat website. Will the recursion ever end?!?!? “Kazakhstan embassy on Borat (NPR)”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6276973