Friday, October 10, 2008

Two Vietnam Students Who Wore Borat Styled "Male Bikinis" in School Suspended for a Year

This is indeed bizarre news.

Two Vietnamese students have been suspended from school for a year for wearing Borat-Style "Male Bikinis" in school.

For the two Vietnamese students inspired by the film character Borat, who dressed up in skimpy "male bikinis" and tugged fake pubic hair from each other's bodies, nothing could have been funnier. But officials deemed the performance at a college event utterly inappropriate and the pair were promptly expelled for a year. Not surprisingly, the incident and the subsequent fallout have been seized on in the communist nation's usually staid and scripted media as well as the blogosphere. "I cannot understand how they could do such an anti-cultural thing," said Nguyen Dinh Van, a letter writer from Hanoi. "I cannot accept it."

Read the full article here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/vietnam-students-suspended-for-borat-prank-949719.html

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