The Right Kind of Pride

[hodja]

What makes this patriotic song about Kazakhstan (the real one, not Borat-land) by JCS quite interesting is that instead of priding himself of being the successor of great warriors, the singer's source of pride is his own accomplishment of returning home from a long, profitable journey to distant places with various riches and, most important of

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Final remarks

[hodja]

There are many direct and more nuanced references in the song and the video that make a lot of sense to Russian-speakers and those with some knowledge of Central Asia (for example, during the verse about the creator's labyrinth, the famous canyon known as "Valley of Castles" is shown or the boy biting an apple before the truck arrives to Alma-Ata, the "City of Apples"). Maybe there are even more that I did not get for not being that intimately familiar with Kazakhstan.

[fare]

Where is the "I Like" button on livejournal? Damn, been using Facebook too much.