Post #312054 by naugatiki on Sun, Jun 10, 2007 10:59 AM

I grew up there from the late 60’s to the late 90’s and people asked the same question in the mid 70’s (At least that’s the first time I remember hear it). “Aloha Spirit” depends on your attitude. A lot of the beaten down types say the phrase is something invented by the Hawaii Visitors Bureau while others find something see island culture as special and unique. A friend of mine recently told me that a lot of the local kids stopped speaking pidgin in favor of rap “street” talk and it kind of bummed me out. In Bigbrother’s defense a lot of the “tiki’ in this forum is based on a stylized deconstruction of Hawaiian culture and it’s fetish. This site might be a better avenue for a question of that nature. http://www.hawaiithreads.com/