There is a taboo that left-leaning critics of popular culture are obliged to observe: never criticize the populace.
"It is a taboo in Qatar to see somebody wearing the national dress and drinking, " said Hassan Al Ibrahim, a Qatari commentator.
Nearly 5 million South Africans may have AIDS, medical experts estimate, and for many in the country discussing the disease is a taboo.
Community workers say that debt is a taboo topic for elderly people, and they will keep their money problems secret even from their closest loved ones.
But despite prostate cancer being the second leading cause of deaths among men, with a life lost to the disease every six minutes, it is a taboo subject for many men, who can feel too embarrassed to mention the condition.
Trend chasing is a fairly taboo act in any creative field, where having a distinct and unique vision is the key element to creating affecting and effective art, and it can be a death wish in pop music.
Analysts say the case shows how much homosexuality is still a taboo in Egypt, where many people are not prepared to even acknowledge it exists.
Sometimes, all people need to overcome an old taboo is a scandal.
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The tournament was seen by many as the perfect platform to promote safe sex and increase awareness and education about a disease that is, to a large degree, still a taboo subject in the region.
Sex education is considered taboo in many families and only a handful of schools have courses on reproductive health on their curriculum, he says.
Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing as Millennials-individuals born in the 1980s and 1990s-join the labor force.
It could be that after twenty years the time is now ripe for Chileans to break with the taboo of voting for a center - right candidate.
This is a major break in post-WWII policy, in which aggression became a fundamental taboo.
The taboo topic of gender-based violence is also being acknowledged and recognized in a popular program targeting one of Guatemala's most vulnerable groups, indigenous Mayan girls.
And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.
There is a diversity of opinions about biological donation across cultures, with some more traditional ones considering the practice taboo.
It's a taboo subject generally in society and may be particularly difficult in a busy health care setting where it is crowded and there isn't a lot of time.
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