Mai Tai: Tiki Culture, Cocktails, and Appropriation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2015
- A brief history of Tiki culture, and the origins of the Mai Tai!
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loving the narrative style of this channel, need more...
Thanks! Always working on more...
Amazing!
Nice hat!
+Richard Lightburn ha! Thanks.
Absolutely fantastic video! Impeccably researched and presented. I'm going to send this to anyone who asks me what "tiki" is from now on :) Cheers
Thank you! Great to hear.
Lovely -- but why do I suddenly feel thirsty?
I thought it was the Chinese slangish/colloquial phrase 埋汰 (mai2 tai4 or mai2 tai0) lol.
Adam from Adam and Eve means "Red Earth" or Red Clay... very interesting how similar tiki and adam stories are. Also do the word Cubit, it shares a aramaic egyptian root and is the old letter Yod
Nice parallel, thanks!
I loved this one. I remember my parents having Tiki parties when I was a kid. they were inspired by visits to Trader Vic's. fun stuff!
Heather Kirkness Thanks, Heather! That's fun -- I hope I can make it to a real Trader Vic's some day!
As a Polynesian, This screams appropriation
The video, or tiki itself? I certainly agree that the tiki aesthetic and drinks culture is pretty appropriative; I hope the video isn't, but if it is, I'd be grateful to hear what I could or should have done differently.
@@Alliterative no, I love your videos. Very informative. I mean the tiki culture is extreme appropriation of my culture. Hurts to see.
Oh, right. Yes, it’s a pretty blatant case. I’m sorry 😞. And thank you.
Really cool and informative... made me thirsty
+Michael Greiling Thanks!
FYI, looks like someone may have stolen your video: th-cam.com/video/WP-oCmx7qy0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you -- we'll look into it.
Kind of a light weight study of tiki culture with the word “appropriation“ in the title I was expecting you to discuss more of the negative issues connected with it. I’m a longtime fan of cheeky stuff but now wondering if it’s got some bad elements as well. It could’ve been a lot more informative in that way but I guess the objective all along was to end on a sweet note that we all live happily ever after and that no one is really offended by it. Quite the contrary if you simply ask around. I have friends who were into tiki but they’re also into Native American stuff they are white Yankees but they dress like they’re out of a Ralph Lauren catalog with lots of beaded denim and they were 20 or $30,000 worth of silver and turquoise jewelry oh Navajo pieces as though they are part of the Wanabee tribe if you know what I mean,.
I find it rather ironic at the end when you’re showing how to make the cocktail that you don’t explain that you’re wearing double appropriation, the cheeky Hawaiian shirt and a fez more connected with middle eastern or northern Africa. Maybe is that part two of this video that I missed? Maybe it’s on another TH-cam? I’m just asking for a friend because he was curious if doesn’t know how to work the computer keyboard
I agree that I didn't go as far into the question of appropriation as I could have; partly that's because this was back when I was trying to keep the videos much shorter. I remember being worried because this was longer than 10 minutes! (TH-cam was a different place 8 years ago). But we did get into some more of that important discussion in a subsequent podcast episode based on this video; it's here: www.alliterative.net/podcast/2018/2/14/episode-53-making-mai-tais-talking-tiki and there's a version on YT as well: th-cam.com/video/VRYNWskWBFA/w-d-xo.html (it's just audio). We still probably didn't go as far as we could have, though; I think I would go further if I were doing it now.
Oh, and you're right about the aloha shirt and fez. Again, those are things I could/should have talked more about -- where they came from and what is and isn't a problem about them and the way I used them.
Tiki is a made up construct, it's fantasy.
Why are you wearing an Ottoman hat in your tiki bar outfit?
larkvi Fezzes became associated with lounge culture, and tiki culture in particular, in the 50's and 60's -- probably because of links with the Shriners and other subcultures that liked to party. But to be honest, I'm not certain about exactly how and why that happened -- must look it up in case I do another tiki video!
Alliterative I had no idea!
There are tiki-related "societies" today that still use the fez as a membership perk, such as the Fraternal Order of the Moai and the Rumbustion Society.