Post #517319 by tiki mick on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 4:55 PM

Actually, I remembered the phrase "Kool Kids" from something posted here about 6-7 years ago...I just thought it was funny back then, so I keep on using it though I am not always correct about who the Kool Kids currently are! (I just know I am probably not one of them!) I guess the phrase kind of stuck in my head.

To me, Kool Kids would just refer to really stuck up people, who have adopted a notion of what "Tiki" is and what it really means, and if you don;t agree, turn their backs on you.

I am of the old fashioned "Tiki is poly-pop" school of thought. Basically, Sven's books just about sum it up for me. But I know there are people that come from a whole different outlook, one more in tune with the hippies on Maui. Tiki to them is about polynesian culture, and mystical things and using words like "Mana" whereas in my conception of tiki it's more about Anaheim culture in 1961, eating fake cantonese food and living a fake lifestyle of suburban primitism, for example. That's actually what I love about Tiki.

However, I have not really encountered all that many people here on tiki central (in person, at events) that fit the description of a Tiki Snob. Most people in my area are really cool. Many of us know each other, and I see new people here all the time, and noone treats them harshly.