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The tourism board quickly put together the videos after hearing of the Borat sequel, and timed their campaign to coincide with the movie's release, according to a news release. The campaign is intended to "celebrate Kazakhstan and show fans of the 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' around the world why they should come visit this incredible country," the release said.

Kazakhstan's nature is very nice; its food is very nice; and its people, despite Borat's jokes to the contrary, are some of the nicest in the world," said Kairat Sadvakassov, deputy chairman of Kazakh Tourism, in the release. For context: in the first Borat film, the character welcomes viewers to his hometown by introducing them to "the town rapist" and "the No.

The film was released at a sensitive time ; it came only 15 years after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in After banning the original movie in , Kazakhstan is now using a phrase made famous by "Borat" in a new tourism campaign.

The country released an ad on Sunday showing its stunning landscapes, cuisine and tourist attractions as visitors say, "Very nice. The sequel, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," which was released last week and continued its offensive stereotyping, inspired a different approach when a trailer dropped in late September, according to the New York Times.

Rather than ignore the satirical movie, Kazakhstan has filmed an ad using Borat's catchphrase as its slogan. In the caption for the ad on YouTube, it pays tribute to Borat: "How can you describe a place this surprising in just two words?

According to The Times, the idea to create tourism ads based on the movie came from Dennis Keen, a Los Angeles transplant who first came to Kazakhstan on a summer exchange program in He's now married to a local, hosts a travel show on local TV, and runs a business offering walking tours. As the owner of a tourism-based company during a pandemic, Keen said he had a lot of time on his hands.

He also didn't want his newborn son to be ashamed of his home country when he grew up. When the trailer for the "Borat" sequel, which was shot in secret, was released in late September, Keen and a friend, Yermek Utemissov, pitched tourism ads featuring the slogan "Kazakhstan.

Very nice! He said that it was a surprisingly easy sell. Once approved, the pair quickly shot four short spots featuring the slogan with a local travel video team. Several advocacy organisation based in countries like Canada, the UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Georgia have joined a US based organisation in calling for the film to be blocked by all the major awards in Hollywood.

The groups have appealed to those organisations behind major Hollywood film awards like the Oscars and Golden Globes to not consider the film in the upcoming awards season.

Reason: Cohen's film, according to these groups normalizes, promotes and monetizes "whitewashing, ethnic stereotyping, cultural appropriation and racism in entertainment. Cohen went beyond any moral or ethical standards in portraying Kazakh people as misogynistic, incestuous, anti-Semitic, and barbarous," said Gia Noortas, CEO of Hollywood Film Academy in a statement issued to the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Academy.