Post #751506 by creativenative on Thu, Sep 24, 2015 11:30 PM

Wow lots of posts while writing the above off and on in Word. Right on AceExplorer, lots of similar remarks in our posts. Sorry ken-j you are right, the Philippines and other islands closer to the Asian continent are literally still in the Pacific but in current academic studies Pacific Islanders are defined as indigenous people of Oceania which does not include the Philippines nor other islands off Southeast Asia or Northern Asia only islands that are technically in Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. Papua New Guinea is part of Melanesia and therefore part of Oceania and part of tiki. Tikicoma I also stand corrected there are rare parrots in Aotearoa or New Zealand (good catch) and French Polynesia, some are near extinction or extinct, but as you know we are referring to parrots that are native to Central and South America, these are the common parrots that are stereotypically associated with Oceanic cultures, checkout your nearest Party City décor or the streets of Waikiki who's mainland vendors are peddling these American birds off to naïve tourist for $10 dollar photos. Indonesia is not part of the South Seas but it borders west of it. You are also correct tiki culture is more then Hawaii and Polynesia, it is about all of Oceania and other eccentricities found in my previous post.

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[ Edited by: creativenative 2015-09-24 23:45 ]