An Exchange with a Facebook Friend re the film Borat

I've always thought the fillm Borat was more about the U.S. -- or, rather, how a foreigner views the USA -- than about Kazakhstan. Indeed, Borat is Sasha Cohen trying to make sense (through his wonderfully vulgar humor) of the United States, which is depicted in his film as a wild and crazy place, perhaps more so than where Borat is actually from. In his younger days, at Cambridge University [UK], Cohen wrote his dissertation (which I have not read) on Jewish involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. Could this scholarly work on his part have been penned because he could not figure out how America can call itself a democracy while depriving its citizens of the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?

(Exchange slightly edited)