Jamaica shrugs off controversial Volkswagen Super Bowl ad and sees tourism benefit
Skift Take
If Jamaicans aren't insulted by the ad and can get some tourism benefit from it, then it's all good. Jamaica, no problem.
Jamaica is embracing a controversial Super Bowl commercial that depicts a white office worker from the U.S. Midwest feigning the Caribbean island's lilting patois accent to display a cheerful, upbeat outlook.
Some U.S. critics have described the pregame Super Bowl ad from Volkswagen of America as offensive and culturally insensitive, apparently seeing the commercial that hit the web on Monday as an echo of segregation-era depictions of white people posing as happy-go-lucky black folk. Jamaica's population is predominantly black.
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On NBC's "The Today Show," Barbara Lippert, editor-at-large at mediapost.com, said she believed the commercial was
