{"id":24215,"date":"2020-10-27T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/oct\/27\/kazakh-american-group-claims-borat-subsequent-moviefilm-incites-violence"},"modified":"2020-10-27T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:39:15","slug":"kazakh-american-group-claims-borat-subsequent-moviefilm-incites-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24215","title":{"rendered":"Kazakh-American group claims Borat Subsequent Moviefilm &#8216;incites violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kazakh American Association has released a letter on social media accusing Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s latest Borat film of \u2018justifying harassment\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/oct\/21\/borat-subsequent-moviefilm-review-sacha-baron-cohen-trump\">Borat Subsequent Moviefilm<\/a>, Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s new satirical comedy which \u2013 like its 2006 predecessor Borat \u2013 identifies Kazakhstan as the home country of its fictional journalist character Borat Sagdiyev.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiaNoortas\/status\/1320411407800700928\/photo\/2\">In a letter published on social media<\/a> shortly before the film\u2019s official launch, addressed to three senior Amazon executives, the Kazakh American Association says that Borat Subsequent Moviefilm \u201cmay cause irreparable harm to to Kazakhstan\u2019s national image and people as its comedic nature may justify ethnicity-based harassment\u201d. It adds: \u201cThis film incites violence against a highly vulnerable and under-represented minority ethnic group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/oct\/27\/kazakh-american-group-claims-borat-subsequent-moviefilm-incites-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kazakh American Association has released a letter on social media accusing Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s latest Borat film of \u2018justifying harassment\u2019A group of Kazakh-Americans has demanded that Amazon withdraw Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,415,687,69,1033,262,238,220,824,61,58,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-donald-trump","category-facebook","category-film","category-holocaust","category-kazakhstan","category-media","category-second-world-war","category-social-networking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24216,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24215\/revisions\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}