The emails that show how Borat sparked panic in the Foreign Office...

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The emails that show how Borat sparked panic in the Foreign Office...
By JASON LEWIS
The Daily Mail


Borat: UK diplomats decided to keep arms' length away from him.

"With wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, you'd expect diplomats to be overloaded with important work.

But for at least one UK mission, war and international relations have taken a back seat to a more pressing issue - protecting Britain from Borat fallout.

The movie Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan is now an international hit taking millions at the box office in Britain and America.

But for a year diplomatic channels between the British Embassy in Kazakhstan and the Foreign Office have been filled with agonising over how to deal with the fictitious Kazakh journalist created by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=420071&in_page_id=1770

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1. You really have to wonder what it means that people start doing documentaries

on your odd and "interesting" population. Like the reverse of the national geographic. What does it say that the USA, and some particular characters (a certain base) make for such interest.

Not pretty. Kind off implies American primacy is over when one becomes a curiosity.

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2. How many Pollacks does it take to make an Englishman?

Apparently two (emphasis on parent).

Following the Borat story on Daily Mail led to discovering sensationalism over immigration is not limited to the US. Should I find any comfort in that, or are hot button issues always just hot button issues?

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3. When jobs are scarce, immigration is always an issue. Anywhere.

So, no. "Hot button" issues are not ALWAYS "hot button." When jobs are plentiful, immigrants are courted and welcomed.

You might take ten seconds to consider the underlying real anxiety that's being exploited.

Western jobs are being shipped to the third world, but the third world is still coming here. So we'll all get to starve together.

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4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Okay. I've thought about it, and decided you need to take 10 seconds to consider perhaps people are being bamboozled the world over into believing immigration is "a problem".