"I know it's taboo to discuss it at work.
If villagers are cautious about discussing the implications of the activity in Qunu, it is because in Xhosa custom, as in many other African cultures, it is taboo to discuss a person's death while they are still alive.
However, this strategy was not well received in the People's Republic of China, and the agents using it faced not only rejection, but contempt, suspicion, and even hostility". That's because it's taboo to discuss premature death in Chinese culture.
It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking," says Hedren.
In the ensuing years, it became taboo to discuss either the president's health, or his mortality, or who will replace him.
But one can also not make it a taboo to discuss indications of the involvement of North Africans". De Maiziere's comments echoed those made by Merkel, who previously said the perpetrators should be harshly punished.
Last February, in an interview published in a Swiss newspaper, I said that "a million Armenians and thirty thousand Kurds had been killed in Turkey"; I went on to complain that it was taboo to discuss these matters in my country.
Ribner says Judaism regards sex as something positive, but it has become taboo to discuss it openly.
Despite the huge numbers of hostess bars available in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan, it is still taboo to discuss it with friends and family.
So many women have fertility issues, but it's still taboo to discuss.
