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Bajans have mixed views on Rihanna’s S&M video

Rihanna at the Glow in the Dark TourImage via Wikipedianationnews.com: "Barbadians are expressing mixed views on the controversial S&M song by Barbados Grammy winner Rihanna....

By the way ,why is my spell-checker suggesting that I should replace Barbadian with barbarian?

For those who don't know a person from Barbados is called a Barbadian although I guess we may have some barbarians living here.However we prefer to be called Bajan......
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