Borat makes me laugh - and cringe too

So, after a quick finishing off of the Christmas shopping, April and I caught a matinee of "Borat." Even better, the matinee price was $3 so I didn't feel like I'd just been fisted by Kerasotes.
"Borat" was exactly what I though we were in for. An amazing view at an outsiders life - that was totally made up with amazing social commentary on the state of America.
I felt sorry for some of the people who were his victims. Borat hates jews, gypsies, gays and women. At one point staying in a bed and breakfast owned by an elderly jewish couple, he is convinced they are shapshifters who have turned into coackroaches. To defend himself against the jewish bugs, he throws money at them. Holy Crap do people still act like this?
At a rodeo, he tries to kiss a man on his cheeks, traditional European style. One older cowboy tells him only the fruity guys do that. The ones who love the 'man on man' action. Borat says his country hangs them - the cowboy responds by saying "That's the way our country is trying to return too." For real ... not scripted, not acting. Real attitude, real reaction..

Is this the way our country is returning too? We laughed at the comments. Not laughing in humor, but laughing in shame that this man truly believes his statement to be correct. Is this what children are learning? Is this just an old man with old ways who refuses to accept people as people?

I am glad to have been raised to accept people for being people. Everyone is different, and everyone has something to offer the world. Even comediens who expose people's weaknesses behind a hidden camera.

-DJr-