Thus the name of Hapuna Kahuna Tiki Bar & Kitchen, which Davidson opened in downtown Corvallis, Oregon, on June 22, the paper said.
“A lot of this has to do with family,” he told the Gazette-Times. “That was a big part of my childhood.”
But it turns out Davidson’s Tiki bar would have a very short life.
Local residents of Polynesian descent — including folks with the Oregon State University Asian and Pacific Cultural Center — didn’t like Hapuna Kahuna’s Hawaiian name, cartoonish Tiki decorations and that customers were handed plastic leis, Davidson told the paper.
In other words, cultural appropriation.
Tiki bar owner ‘very sorry,’ closes up shop. The reason will come as no surprise.
IIRC That is 2 business run out of town for cultural appropriation. [In Oregon]
“A lot of this has to do with family,” he told the Gazette-Times. “That was a big part of my childhood.”
But it turns out Davidson’s Tiki bar would have a very short life.
Local residents of Polynesian descent — including folks with the Oregon State University Asian and Pacific Cultural Center — didn’t like Hapuna Kahuna’s Hawaiian name, cartoonish Tiki decorations and that customers were handed plastic leis, Davidson told the paper.
In other words, cultural appropriation.
Tiki bar owner ‘very sorry,’ closes up shop. The reason will come as no surprise.
IIRC That is 2 business run out of town for cultural appropriation. [In Oregon]
