A hunter with typical Kazakhstan robes
The unmistakable Borat did not paint his country very well. But Kazakhstan is not prostitution, urine and violence – it is one of the most curious countries in the world.
Borat fans can think of Kazakhstan and untie laugh. Drink made of urine, prostitution of the daughters themselves, Jewish race. A real jungle.
Of course, it’s all a lie, and the country didn’t find a big joke – the movie was even banned from Kazakhstan for giving it a bad fame. Those involved in the mega production also
But even in lies there is a real background. In the case of Borat, only one sentence resists the polygraph: “Good country, good people”, or “good country, good people.” And the feeling that we are facing a very peculiar country can rob us when we get there.
And the ninth largest country in the world in terms of area. However, at the population level, it does not reach twice in Portugal – it has about 20 million inhabitants. However, what highlights it on the map is the fact that it is the richest of countries ending with “são”. The secret? Oil.
The country, which, like other “stans”, was part of the Soviet Union, it obtains more than half of its revenues through the sale of black gold and other valuable materials.
As pointed out, unlike the rural country shown by Borat, cities like Astana have great futuristic architectural projectswith different shapes of the ordinary, huge shopping centers, museums and a lot of nightlife. The capital is a modern, very recent city, full of surrealist buildings (and the most fun formats).
But the culture of Kazakhstan is much more curious than that, and actually counts on various elements that may seem strange to the West.
The Country of Horses
To eat, to drink, to play sport. Horses are kings in Kazakhstan. The most popular dish, the caries, consists of smoked horse sausage. Already the kumyss, The most typical drink is made of fermented mare milkand several site explain that it acts as a kind of brandy in Portugal: it serves for everything, from rejoicing Serões to heal constipation.
In sport, animals are also used. But along with another animal, which has a less happy destination for Buzkashi concerns. THE most popular sport in the country It consists (and if you understand Kazakh may have deduced by the name, which means “grab the dead goat”) in Circulating on horse, vying for the control of a “ball”, which is nothing less than a small dead goat.
At the end of the match, one of the favorite things of the Kazakhistanis (and then Brat was right): a big party.
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
