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Originally Posted by Niamh.
I can see why the kazakhstani people would be offended although it's pretty clear it's not a serious portrayal either
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Yeah it's unfortunate really that he had to choose a random country to "hail from" to amplify the West's ignorances. To take it at face value: yeah it's offensive to Kazakhstan. But the point of the character is to mock our own preconceptions of countries and cultures we know nothing about, and criticise our sense of "better than them".
I do wonder if he could have made up a country or region to hail from and got the same results and meetings.