Washington (CNN) At a moment when people are reassessing racial and cultural caste -- and reexamining their insensitivity toward others -- it's worth revisiting the legacy of Sacha Baron Cohen's errant, mustachioed character, Borat, who returned in a sequel on Friday . "With 'Borat,' Baron Cohen reclaimed for 'First Worlders' the 'right' to mock foreigners from developing nations," the journalist Inkoo Kang wrote for Slate in 2018 . With "Borat," she said, it felt as if Baron Cohen had arbitrarily chosen a "foreign-sounding" country in order to say something profound about faraway America. The argument is that "Borat" uses Kazakhstan as a prop, as a means of illustrating issues in America. Maybe "Borat" helps viewers get to know America a little bit better.

Source: CNN October 24, 2020 16:07 UTC