MN
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MN
On 2008-05-07 07:20, Cammo wrote:
Go ahead and argue the details all you want, but -
It's ironic and very insightful that this site is dedicated to a native religion, but we're only allowed to post ethnocentric upper middle class Western views of it.
Of course Tiki is and was a religion. But any discussion of this purely from the native's religious viewpoint is literally forbidden on TC!
By limiting the discussion to entertaining aspects of a tourists-eye view of world of Tiki, we're forced to make fun of it. It's in fact a rule here. And its shameful.
But, this is what Tiki Central is about. Not a native religion.
Tiki Central is a place to celebrate the classic Tiki Bars of the mid-century and the design aesthetic they established. This movement grew in popularity after World War II when America had a new fascination with the South Seas and Hawaii. Tiki Bars sought to bring an idealized tropical paradise into the concrete jungle of the Modern World. Very little of it was genuine -- born mostly out of the likes of Hollywood art directors and modern architects -- but it all seemed real to a then-naïve public’s eye. The Tiki style started in bars and restaurants but soon spilled over into all forms of popular culture, including music, food, dress, TV and movies, and other forms of architecture.
The Tiki that Tiki Central focuses on is a mid-century American invention that is Polynesia-inspired.
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