Post #517283 by Chip and Andy on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 2:29 PM

The term Ohana is actually a pretty new word on the geological scale of things.

Here is Google's input for the term:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=definition+of+ohana&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I use it in the loosest sense of the word, we're all related by our interest in Tiki therefore we are a kind of Ohana.

I use it sometimes in the more personal, familial way meaning my circle of friends are my Ohana. For this use of the word I tend more to the Disney Lilo & Stitch type meaning of no one gets left behind.

Here is where it gets interesting......

I have been accused by a couple of people of being very Un-Ohana Like, or not demonstrating the Ohana Spirit, or some general way of saying I am being unfriendly that includes a link to Ohana in the description.

At the same time I am being accused by these three people over here, I am being applauded by those three over there for demonstrating what Ohana truly means.

Which is it?

Am I being mean and therefore Un-Ohana like?

Or am I showing true Ohana spirit for standing up for or with my friends?

Could this mean Ohana is being co-opted as the new "Kool Kids."

It used to be that if you weren't part of the Kool Kids you were an outcast. We can't do that, the Kool Kids will make fun of us, beat us up, whatever it is the Kool Kids do to people who aren't Kool Kids.

Now the same people, are telling me that I am not 'truly' Ohana. Like they are more Ohana than I am and I should probably just give up trying because I will never be as Ohana as they are.

Or maybe its even worse.... Maybe the Kool Kids are still the Kool Kids, and a group of Not-Kool Kids has finally come together to try and control Ohana.

What do you think?

Is Ohana being taken over as the term du jour?

Who decides what is and what isn't Ohana? And is there some sort of panel of judges where we can plead our cases? an appeals process for Ohana?

[ Edited by: Chip and Andy 2010-03-14 19:43 ]