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L Luckydesigns Tiki Socialite Costa Mesa Joined: Sep 15, 2002 Posts: 2374	L Luckydesigns Posted posted on Thu, Sep 24, 2015 9:11 AM I actually don't think that the tiki 'movement' has much at all do do with respecting cultures. It's always been about the naive appropriation of Polynesian cultures... In a kitschy way. I thing we all have learned more about those cultures because of tiki, but those who go learning to speak Hawaiian and stuff, start taking it into 'hawaiiana', not tiki. Political correctness is the antithesis of tiki. Donn Beach had pet monkeys... And while a monkey associated with tiki is kind of 'incorrect', it doesn't offend me, personally, as someone including parrots into tiki. That feels SO Caribbean. The same could be said of shrunken heads... That was a South American thing. Not a Pacific Islander thing. But because of their exotic feel, they work in tiki. [ Edited by: Luckydesigns 2015-09-24 09:13 ]

I actually don't think that the tiki 'movement' has much at all do do with respecting cultures. It's always been about the naive appropriation of Polynesian cultures... In a kitschy way. I thing we all have learned more about those cultures because of tiki, but those who go learning to speak Hawaiian and stuff, start taking it into 'hawaiiana', not tiki. Political correctness is the antithesis of tiki.

Donn Beach had pet monkeys... And while a monkey associated with tiki is kind of 'incorrect', it doesn't offend me, personally, as someone including parrots into tiki. That feels SO Caribbean.

The same could be said of shrunken heads... That was a South American thing. Not a Pacific Islander thing. But because of their exotic feel, they work in tiki.

[ Edited by: Luckydesigns 2015-09-24 09:13 ]

Post #751433 by Luckydesigns on Thu, Sep 24, 2015 9:11 AM