Post #401162 by Kailuageoff on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 7:38 PM

It seems to me this discussion is hung up on the word "culture". Of course Tiki was never a culture in the sense that a specific geographically distinct ethnic group evolved an elaborate and unique social system, however, in mid-century modern suburban America the traditional definitions of culture such as language, geography, ancestry and religion were dissolved by the collision of multiple immigrant cultures, the emergence of mass media, the availability of affordable global travel and the emergence of what sociologists identified early on as "popular culture"."Tiki culture" as thoroughly explained in Sven's writings is not only an easily identified (and much-beloved) pop subculture, it was one of the first of many less enduring and fully-expressed pop subcultures that have come and gone over the past fifty years.

To claim the term "Tiki Culture" is incorrect, is to miss the entire point of the thousands of posts on this Web site, never mind Sven's books.
KG