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An Idiot Abroad
2010 · TV series · documentary · 43 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Ricky Gervais
An Idiot Abroad is a British travel documentary television series broadcast on Sky1 and Science, as well as spin-off books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. The ongoing theme of both the television series and the books is that Pilkington has no interest in global travel, so Merchant and Gervais make him travel while they stay in the United Kingdom and monitor his progress.
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I've seen an episode from Ricky Gervias's "An Idiot Abroad" satire-documentary, where this British guy was trying out a dating matching service in India around 2009 and you had to provide this exact kind of personal information, since as a man you were judged mainly on those factors: academic titles, career, salary, wealth, family background. Some parts of Asia seem very status and wealth oriented to me. Brutal and sad.
If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend watching "An idiot abroad". It's a great travel show with Karl Pilkington. He goes to foreign lands and tells it how it is.