While there are millions of fans of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Borat’ mockumentaries, Gulnara Glowacki is decidedly not among them.
Glowacki, a UW-Madison senior lecturer in Kazakh Language and Culture who was born and raised in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, isn’t amused by Cohen’s portrayal of a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist bumbling his way through awkward encounters with puzzled American citizens. And she’s also not thrilled that the recent sequel, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” has brought the character back to the forefront of U.S. popular culture.
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