I discovered this stark and beautiful documentary about a year ago. At that time I had never heard of Borat. After I watched the intro to Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, I was reminded of this film and I went back to enjoy it all over again. The cultural observation that I would like to make is that it would probably be easy to make a similar documentary about marginalized Americans relying on ingenuity and family to get along in life. American film makers would rather remake The Dukes of Hazzard. Ye Haw.