How does the character "Borat" get away with all that crazy stuff?:
They should have titled this paper, "The Borat Effect":
This research examined the effect of language fluency on the evaluation of culturally inappropriate behavior. A series of video vignettes were created in which a nonnative speaker either followed or broke social rules while displaying varying degrees of fluency in English. Results demonstrated a shielding effect of poor language fluency, such that when the nonnative individual acted in a culturally inappropriate manner, poor fluency in English shielded the individual from negative evaluation.
Source: "Training Wheels for Cultural Learning: Poor Language Fluency and Its Shielding Effect on the Evaluation of Culturally Inappropriate Behavior" from "Journal of Language and Social Psychology"
I'm going to speak in broken English all the time and just GET AWAY WITH MURDER.
If you want more Borat he's here and here.
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