Cultural appropriation in a cup: tiki bars don't need Polyne

Cultural appropriation in a cup: tiki bars don't need Polynesian god-themed glasses and statues to feel exotic – let's rebrand them as 'tropical' bars

Originating in the 1930s, tiki bars are intended as an exotic escape, but their cup designs appropriate gods from Polynesian cultures. It’s time to do away with such problematic iconography and rebrand them as ‘tropical’.

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