After condemning Sacha Baron Cohen’s first “Borat” movie for portraying the country as backward and bigoted in 2006, Kazakhstan has now embraced the character’s catchphrase as a tourism slogan. The …
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Kazakhstan embraces Borat catchphrase in new tourism campaign: ‘Very nice!’
When comedian Sacha Baron Cohen released his satirical mockumentary about the fictional Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev in 2006, it was banned in Kazakhstan.
‘Very nice’: Kazakhstan makes ‘Borat’ catchphrase its official tourism slogan
Almost 14 years after Kazakhstan banned the original “Borat” film, the nation’s tourism board is adopting the catchphrase of the fictional character.