CATTLE-RICH Cohen
Rehashing
a Turkish Internet phenomenon and making red state fratboys and rodeo attendees look gullible on film is apparently worth $26.4 million, minimum (with a limited theatrical release, no less). So proves
Sasha Baron Cohen with his yukfest,
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. With all the emotional distress Borat has caused the jew-hating, sister-pimping people of Kazakhstan, Borat would do well to give a lil' something back to his motherland. Here's what $26.4 million will get you in the former Soviet Republic (note: prices calculated at the current exchange rate of 133 Tenge/U.S. dollar):
• 2,324,000 kilograms of unrefined livestock meat
• 767,123 kilograms of sausage
• Vet/health expenses for two million cattle
• Feed for 24.5 million kilograms of cattle
• 23,333 tons of wheat (market price)
• Snow furrowing 5,773,195 hectares of wheat
• 3,720,340 hours with a prostitute (city center)
• 7,440,680 hours with a prostitute (rural village)
SOURCES: CIMMYT, UNESCO
I've thoroughly read the CIMMYT report entitled "Changing Competitiveness of the Wheat Sector of Kazakhstan and Sources of Future Productivity Growth" and there's no mention of the disparity in prostitute's fees between the city and the country.
The UNESCO article was chilling however. Well worth a read. Like so many aspects of Borat and all good satire that we howl over, I believe that his real mission behind the jokes - including the incessant prostitute quips - is to reveal truth.
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