But more than half a century later, the old taboos are gradually being broken.
Yet re-examining taboos is a self-limiting process: you run out of them after a bit.
It was not just the rupiah falling, though, it was the noise of broken taboos.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ms. Rhee (a Democrat) has spent the past 18 months puncturing other education taboos.
In some, each individual's freedom was limited by the taboos and hierarchies of his or her community.
Mr Streiff promises to rethink such taboos and present the results of his inquiry early next year.
Saarinen embraced historical precedent and sensuous effect, the taboos of modernism, as eagerly as he adopted new technology.
After all, it has the connotation of weakness, indecisiveness, and incompetence, thanks in large part to societal taboos.
If punk means breaking taboos, maybe The Offspring is still a punk band.
The list, which reads like a ledger of Democratic taboos, goes on.
But while in general taboos around swearing may have been relaxed over the same period, other terms still remain largely beyond the pale.
"In our culture, these issues are taboos and it is better to suppress them for the sake of the family's 'honor, '" she writes.
After the partition, taboos began breaking down and restaurants became popular.
"In society, there are taboos about making a complaint, a woman going to a police station, about a woman talking about her rape, " Mrs Verma says.
Food fads and taboos exert an increasing influence on our dietary habits, whether inspired by religion, health, compassion, global marketing or any permutation of those factors.
In the absence of a written language, these patterns record the history and legends of Li culture as well as aspects of worship, taboos, beliefs, traditions and folkways.
There are few unexpected taboos that you should fear transgressing.
Many of them lived through the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, when it became unacceptable to continue adhering to old taboos that prevented serious discussions about public health concerns.
As well as repeating certain familiar commonplaces and negotiating certain familiar taboos, participants in inter-faith gatherings do sometimes run into real questions, that make a difference to the world at large.
The real-world pictures don't break too many fashion taboos.
In 2011, the University of Denver suspended a professor and found him guilty of sexual harassment because his class discussion on sexual taboos in American culture (in a graduate-level course) was considered too racy.
They were 11 years in which soccer fans were denied the sight of one of the most original, innovative and maverick minds in the history of the game breaking taboos, defying convention and, above all, entertaining.
And the third, and most powerful, force for change is the attitude of India's consumers who have already started to benefit from liberalisation and who will continue to reward those who break some of the old business taboos.
Of course, just the idea that three people - a man and two women - unrelated could have a public conversation about freedom of expression, attitudes towards women, sexuality and other taboos in the rigid social climate of Saudi Arabia would be otherwise unthinkable.
But what I chose was something that was so charged with a complex set of emotions and social taboos, and the way it's painted, it feels more empathetic to a child's experience, a kind of a dawning sexual awareness and a sense of isolation and exploration and things like that.
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