yeah Kazakhstan is still so happy and ultimately thankfull that the "decadent and evil west" presented them like Boratistan
ps. slim mention of Hostel but this is another thing...
about the gesture, well, it depends by the place your are living on, as some users already explained it, in not so multicultural places peoples are seeing on such things differently and it´s not really classified or intended to be racist, I saw once a family of tourists during the ice hockey worlds ordering rice in the dish for their children in a restaurant here doing this gesture, because they didn´t know how to say it, and when totally desperate the man used this gesture and showed eating something small with his fingers, the waitress then immediately understood shouting: Ah ryža (rice) ! everyone was than laughing together and happy. it was quite cute at that moment. but as I said it depend on many factors