Should Tiki Central be stripped of any hawaiiana discussions? - General Tiki

C Cammo Member San Diego Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 2041	C Cammo Posted posted on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 12:59 PM "That facet of the roots of Tiki style is a Wikipedia-type cliche that has been way overstated ..." Let's define "Hawaiiana", now: Wikipedia: Hawaiiana is a popular term of academia...etc." Bro, why are you denouncing Wikipedia as a second class repository of cliches and then quoting it as a defacto source of definitions? And - your entire later arguement about Hawaiiana dances around the fact that by far the most Tikis in the U.S. were made in Hawaii for the tourist trade. (It's still true to this day.) Why ignore Hawaiian made Tikis as a giant cultural influence on mainland culture?

*"That facet of the roots of Tiki style is a Wikipedia-type cliche that has been way overstated ..."

Let's define "Hawaiiana", now:
Wikipedia:
Hawaiiana is a popular term of academia...etc."*

Bro, why are you denouncing Wikipedia as a second class repository of cliches and then quoting it as a defacto source of definitions?

And - your entire later arguement about Hawaiiana dances around the fact that by far the most Tikis in the U.S. were made in Hawaii for the tourist trade. (It's still true to this day.) Why ignore Hawaiian made Tikis as a giant cultural influence on mainland culture?

Post #430232 by Cammo on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 12:59 PM