The very large and also powerful country of Kazakhstan went under most people’s radar until Sacha Baron Cohen came along with his Borat character. Now everyone thinks Kazakhstan is the new Poland.
And videos like this don’t help. At a large ceremony, instead of playing the Kazakh National Anthem, everybody’s favorite 90’s one-hit-wonder, Livin’ Da Vida Loca byRicki Martin, started to blast. One elderly man lowers and nods his head in disgrace.