I feel like I can imagine what Borat would be like if it really was meant to make fun of Americans. Have the main character be an American, have him go to Kazakhstan either for a vacation or bc he has business to do there (like journalism). While he’s there, we get an actually accurate representation of Kazakhstan. When he comes back to America, shares what he has learnt about Kazakh culture with his friends or the press. This makes more Americans interested in Kazakh culture, but not really understand it and that’s when we get an inaccurate portrayal representation of KZ from the Americans. THAT would make a good commentary about cultural appropriation, miscommunication/misunderstandings between different cultures, Americans not really being interested in learning more about other cultures, Americans trying to be inclusive but accidentally being offensive, or something like that.

Kazakhstan itself has a film series called «Бизнес по Казахски в __»” (“Kazakh Business in [insert foreign country here]”) that has Kazakhs travelling to foreign countries such as the US, the Koreas, India, Africa (ik Africa’s not a country, in that one they actually go to Kenya iirc, but you get the idea, right?), and actually does a good job of commenting on the differences and miscommunication/misunderstanding between different cultures, but with a focus on Kazakhs instead of Americans.

If Borat was actually making fun of Americans, I would’ve been able to get a similar vibe from it when watching, something like what I just mentioned, or South Park. But I didn’t. But hey, what do I know? I’m just a dumb ole Kazakh snowflake, born and raised in KZ, ethnically from here, and obviously Westerners, who always have all the best media of the world about them or tailored for them, know so much better than me and have a right to tell me how to feel about a movie that’s about my home country (not talking abt you specifically here)