Post #517564 by TeeKeeMan on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 3:17 PM

As a newcomer to this board, I can say it has been one of the most welcoming 'lifesttyle' boards I've ever been a part of. I personally associate the idea of 'Tiki' with Wild drums and headhunters and zombies and sexual abandon (The 'politically incorrect' notion mentioned earlier) and not so much with the 'Tiki Modern'/midcentury aesthetic and the somewhat more generic 'Hawaiiana' but recognize that for the most part these things are all inextricably linked. I don't think that is something that needs to be corrected - either by me imposing my narrow view of what 'Tiki' really means to me, or anyone else imposing their narrow view of what it means to them.

'Ohana's a very generic term that means different things to different people. Maybe it shouldn't...but it does. Any imaginable 'insult' using the term is equally imprecise - to the point of being meaningless.