Taboo
TABOO is a social prohibition or restriction sanctioned by suprasocietal (innate) means or a socially sanctioned injunction alleged to have the force of such a prohibition. Taboo stands at the i...
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For most Americans, who now wish we had never invaded Iraq, the notion of expanding that extraordinarily lethal mistake into neighboring Iran and Syria must seem insane. Yet those same brilliant ne...
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HONG KONG, Oct 18 (Reuters) - An exhibition seeking to ease
Chinese taboos toward death has opened in Hong Kong, featuring
"green" paper coffins and multimedia artwork, including a
coffin "simulat...
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Hikari Ota is doing what he does best on his weekly "news" show: taking aim at Japan's aging lawmakers."It's easy to spot them nodding away during parliamentary sessions," he tells the studio audie...
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Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic (dpa) - Korean film director Min
Boung-hun's Pruning the Grapevine, which screened Tuesday at the
Karlovy Vary Film Festival, breaks something o...
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Expressions of sexism and racism emerging from the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have been blatant, subtle and perhaps sometimes imagined, and they are renewing the nation...
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Brussels (dpa) - The European Commission launched Wednesday a
review of its long-term budget which officials hailed as a unique
opportunity to debate the European Union's fu...
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ROME, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The word "condom" is to be uttered
for the first time in an advertisement to raise AIDS awareness
in Italy, breaking a bizarre taboo in the Catholic country. Since the spr...
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BERLIN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A row over a television host's
praise for Hitler's family values has exposed deep divisions in
Germany over whether it is acceptable to say anything positive
about the N...
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KATHMANDU, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Ignoring social taboos in this
conservative nation, a Nepali radio programme on safe sex is
spreading awareness against HIV/AIDS and offers life-saving
advice to young...
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Taboo
Bushies Break Neocon Taboo
