Post #624374 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 4:24 PM

On 2012-02-09 16:04, KokoKele wrote:
And I find it humorous that anyone can use the term "cultural ignorance" in association with a vessel designed to serve exotic cocktails in theme restaurants. Dude, they're mugs! The reverence is pretty much negated as soon as they come out of the kiln. Now, if someone turned Michelangelo's Pieta into a scorpion bowl, we might be able to start talking cultural ignorance.

Hm, perhaps I was referring more to such cheerful statements as "... In the process he decided it should also be a drum. That's a clever islander!..."

And (much to your surprise perhaps) Tiki Culture IS indeed viewed as a "culture" here. Some dude wrote some books to back that up. And wrote over 9500 posts about it. There is much there to be ignorant about: Original Polynesian culture, mid-century American Tiki culture, and contemporary Tiki Revival culture.

At this point I have to really apologize to Henrik for letting myself getting drawn into this, I will cease to post here and let the kids have their ball.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-02-09 16:26 ]