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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 1:35 PM It must not be in use much anymore, since I had never heard it before, and I love and study American slang...I think it's funny. But this touches on the age old question of How much political incorrectness is funny, and when does it become un-funny? The whole Poly Pop/Tiki thing can be seen as racist stereotyping of a culture and people, if you want to see it that way. It all depends on the level of consciousness of the receiver: Does he take it at face value, or with the postmodern ironic understanding of the people and place of when it was born the first time. I am very concerned that with the spread of Tiki culture, some people will receive and purport it in an ignorant manner, as if it was fact. When I wrote the BOT, it seemed that we all had grown out of that chauvinist ignorance toward other peoples and their cultures, and that this was a forgiveable, naive lapse that would never happen in earnest again, and we could all have a good laugh about it. I am not so sure about that anymore now. Not that I regret the BOT, one should not level one's consciousness to the the lowest common ground, but when that ground becomes the majority it is worrysome.

It must not be in use much anymore, since I had never heard it before, and I love and study American slang...I think it's funny.

But this touches on the age old question of How much political incorrectness is funny, and when does it become un-funny?
The whole Poly Pop/Tiki thing can be seen as racist stereotyping of a culture and people, if you want to see it that way. It all depends on the level of consciousness of the receiver: Does he take it at face value, or with the postmodern ironic understanding of the people and place of when it was born the first time.

I am very concerned that with the spread of Tiki culture, some people will receive and purport it in an ignorant manner, as if it was fact. When I wrote the BOT, it seemed that we all had grown out of that chauvinist ignorance toward other peoples and their cultures, and that this was a forgiveable, naive lapse that would never happen in earnest again, and we could all have a good laugh about it. I am not so sure about that anymore now.

Not that I regret the BOT, one should not level one's consciousness to the the lowest common ground, but when that ground becomes the majority it is worrysome.

Post #132158 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 1:35 PM