Country

I've also never seen Borat the Movie (actually, the only Cohen satire I have seen is in class), so I do not have a lot of experience with the characters and the meaning behind them. The more I think about the country music clip, the more I think that Stephanie is right about Borat pointing out the ridiculous way Americans treat foreigners because they are afraid of offending them. Since they know nothing about Borat's culture, they do not want to condemn anything that is so clearly out of line; they tolerate Borat instead.

If the country music scene was changed to, say, a New York City karaoke bar, I believe the reaction would have been different. Although everyone should know that it is completely awful to sing "throw the Jew down the well," people who are far removed from anything Jewish (small bar in the South) are more inclined to support a random foreigner who comes with video cameras.