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Originally Posted by Mikado
I know hes Jewish, but the character is a racist portrayal of a muslim, and Ali G is just doing blackface (making fun of black culture) in whiteface.
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Borat's meant to be Russian, not Muslim. Even tho he does look Arab with the mustache (much like the racist rodeo owner says "shave that damn mustache off so people won't think you're a terrorist"). The movie and series was both hilarious because I think he's done a great job exposing people's prejudices from those characters. It's like he has taken what Archie Bunker and South Park have done but have actually transferred it over to real life and making people show their true colors to what they think is some strange Russian guy.
Ali G was a parody of rich white teenagers who adopt hip hop culture as their own because it makes them look cool, when in actuality they wouldn't survive for two minutes in the hood. If you were in high school at all in the 90's or afterwards, you know these people. It was a great diss I thought.