Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of Jamaica, a small island in the Caribbean which has exported greatness to the world in a multiplicity of guises. So, in a piece in which I will be exhorting you to look beyond the traditional, stultifying cliches about Jamaica, let me revert to the oldest and most ubiquitous at the outset, and say (by way of ironically subverting it, of course) let the sweet reggae music play and the Red Stripe flow!
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