Arin

I LOVE ENHYPEN 💓💓

[ɪᴄɪᴇʟ. 🐚 @EN7ernally]

🐈 so… the reason i actually went live today is…the t-shirt i wore yesterday seemed to make some people uncomfortable, and i genuinely didn’t know. i thought it was just a regular t-shirt, but apparently it’s related to a movie that many people in Kazakhstan find very offensive. i heard it’s a black comedy that portrays them in a bad way. yes, the t-shirt shirt with holes in it. i didn’t know about it yesterday, but after seeing that some people were uncomfortable because of it, i’d like to apologize first. i threw the shirt away immediately. even if i didn’t know, if it made people uncomfortable, it’s still my mistake, so i’m sorry. i got rid of the shirt right away.
🐈 actually, i wanted to apologize first thing this morning, before the concert. but when i checked the time in Kazakhstan, it was still the middle of the night. so i thought it’d be better to go live when people there would actually be awake to see it. i think it’s around 8 or 9 a.m. there now. so as soon as i got back, i started this live. i’m sorry. i’m sincerely sorry, and i’ll reflect on this.
🐈 i’ll delete the TikTok too. also… i found out that the person who created the dance is also from Kazakhstan. the choreographer. i truly had no idea. i’m sorry. i really didn’t know. i’ll be more careful from now on.

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[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

from my personal experience: each time me, my relatives/friends, or any other kazakh person was abroad and said “i’m from Kazakhstan” in 9/10 cases we would hear “ohhh borat right?” in a reply 😕 even 20 years later from the movie release ppl still associate it with us

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

borat wasn’t even filmed in kazakhstan. it was filmed in the romanian village of glod because the filmmakers wanted a poor-looking location to represent kazakhstan. the movie portrays kazakhstan as a country full of misogyny, antisemitism, incest, rape, poverty and ignorance

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

whether sacha baron cohen says the joke was actually about western prejudice doesn’t change the fact that a real country became associated with those stereotypes for almost 20 years. plenty of kazakhs have talked about constantly hearing “very nice,” “my wife,” and other borat

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

another thing people ignore is that around 600,000 kazakhs died fighting nazi germany during world war II. many kazakhs have criticized borat for portraying their country as uniquely antisemitic while using holocaust jokes as comedy despite that history

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

sacha cohen defends borat by saying it’s satire but he’s also been criticized for how he made the film. romanian villagers from glod said they were deceived into participating. critics have argued about the movie using a country with very little global representation as the joke.

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

separate from borat, sasha baron cohen is a well known zionist and racist

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

many kazakhs have been saying for years that the film harmed how the world sees them. dismissing those concerns while demanding accountability in other situations is a clear double standard.

[lou 🀥 @mewmrewne]

if fans expect people to listen when other communities say a symbol, image, or piece of media is harmful, then kazakh voices deserve that same respect instead of being laughed off or told they’re “overreacting.”

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