US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown face complaints over ‘cultural misunderstanding’

Scott Brown,the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, said yesterday  a State Department inquiry was opened into his conduct at a summer event he attended in Samoa. He said his comments to some guests and a food server were taken as offensive.

Brown told New Zealand news website Stuff that the blowback from his remarks at a July Peace Corps celebration resulted from a cultural misunderstanding and may have been politically motivated.