By: E&P Staff Officials from Kazakhstan continue to hit the portrayal of their country in the the new "Borat" movie, but now with a, perhaps, more bemused touch.
Erlan Idrissov, the country's ambassador to Great Britain, now says that although the film "gross misrepresented" his country it also put it "on the map." He added this classic: "Having survived Stalin we will certainly survive Borat."
Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, portrays Kazakhstan as a primitive, anti-Semtic and sexist land of fools. "Borat could have been created only by someone who knows nothing about Kazakhstan and has never been there," Idrissov wrote in a British paper after seeing the film.
"I doubt whether Borat could survive if his creator knew the reality of modern Kazakhstan."
But he did concede that the film had "resulted in the kind of media attention of which previously I could only dream...In a sense he has placed Kazakhstan on the map - no mean achievement since, even though it is the size of Western Europe, most people in the English-speaking world have difficulty in spelling its name and have only a vague idea of where it is."
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