"Cultural taboos" refers to certain actions, behaviors, or subjects that are considered forbidden or strongly disapproved of within a particular society or culture.
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«We realized that many other women could not attend the health camp due to distance to the camp, potential health issues or even because
of cultural taboo,» Shrestha said.
Then again, it's only fitting for a film that bent genres and played
with cultural taboos to buck norms, said Kaluuya.
For many of us there can be numerous social and
cultural taboos associated with this area and a degree of embarrassment when talking about it.
Surveys conducted years ago show a drastic increase in the number of interracial relationships or marriages, thanks to the constantly
changing cultural taboo.
It was not idiosyncratic or aberrant and it was not about strange
cultural taboos in Sudan over inter-faith marriages.
Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions of the human body and that
cultural taboos not stand in the way of science.
That is never the way ethical systems are born or
cultural taboos formulated, nor is that the way the Ten Commandments came into being.
The laws regarding marriage between brother and sister have their roots in
several cultural taboos and medical prohibitions to prevent the problems that arise with inbreeding.
The bright spots shared several characteristics, including high levels of local engagement in resource management, high dependence on local marine resources, and
protective cultural taboos — such as excluding fishers from outside the local village.
Cultural taboos keep most humans from inbreeding, but plants must rely on a complex internal warning system.
There is still a
strong cultural taboo against men paying too much attention to their appearance, despite how irrational that is.
«The purpose of this sketch was to bend our
rigid cultural taboo against dating apps and make women aware that there are decent men out there at the swipe of a finger.»
Actor - turned - director Mawenn Le Besco's Polisse, a microcosmic look at an elite Child Protection Unit, delves
into cultural taboos while operating as a first - rate cop - ensemble drama.
Can they
understand cultural taboos and recognize cultural disconnects when they happen, and do they have the skills to work problems out?
Benjamin Fredrickson (b. Minneapolis, MN, 1980) is an American photographer whose work centers on portraiture and
sub cultural taboos.
This Dionysian work of kinetic theatre, described by the artist as a «celebration of flesh as material», explored the way social dynamics change
when cultural taboos and restrictions are lifted.
Lucas's dealer and friend, the gallery owner Sadie Coles, believes the work sits well with the artist's fearless attitude to sex and to
challenging cultural taboos.
Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore
Muslim cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.
«This report
notes cultural taboos surround this issue in some countries, preventing progress,» says Zafar Adeel, Director of UNU - INWEH.
And because discussions about family don't carry the
same cultural taboo as discussions about money, it is a good idea to keep the focus on maintaining healthy family relationships.
Alice Ray, co-founder and CEO of Ripple Effects, maintains that «there are so many familial and social pressures on kids, we want to give them a way to get supports for those needs without having to
break cultural taboos.»
Between dodging her claws, avoiding a myriad
of cultural taboos, and not accidentally getting married or killed, he has to somehow make the Lyrissians see that joining the Alliance of Worlds is the best choice for all of their futures.
From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.
Surveys conducted in the past years show a drastic increase in the number of interracial marriages or relationships, thanks to the
changing cultural taboo.
I would settle with doing away with
the cultural taboo against discussing the likelihood of God being real.
Anderson's observations about femininity, romance,
cultural taboos, and, of course, sex are at times funny and are framed in well - quipped sentences, but the truth about human sexuality remains remote and largely unexamined.
Jesus spent his earthly ministry breaking the social and
cultural taboos that had excluded certain types of people (prostitutes, lepers, tax collectors) from table fellowship with respectable, pious people.
There was a time and place just a few centuries ago where greed was
a cultural taboo, and having this type of money would be embarrassing.
Despite the benefits, nursing a toddler is still
a cultural taboo.
Cultural taboos can prohibit the sharing of breastfeeding experiences mother - to - mother; expectant couples may not have ever seen a newborn nursing up - close.
they faced
a cultural taboo against breastfeeding after being raped.
Overnight, many of
the cultural taboos associated with overt commercial profiteering on campus began to evaporate.
Self massage of the breast is very important as well and many women are afraid to touch their breasts because it is
a cultural taboo.
Now that Vietnamese is modernizing and there isn't such
a cultural taboo for Asians dating white men, Vietnamese online dating has become a big hit amongst single young women, especially in Ho Chi Minh and other large cities.
looked at a handful of men who signed up for ballroom dancing lessons, in spite of
a cultural taboo against men dancing in public.
The insanity of the plot,
the cultural taboos at its center and the daring opacity of its prologue (another tool revisited in Under the Skin) keep the viewer at arm's length, forcing true dedication to find inspiration in its strangeness.
The insanity of the plot,
the cultural taboos at its center and the daring opacity of its prologue (another tool revisited in
Compounding the quest for justice by the victims is
the cultural taboo that makes it even torturous to report rape to fear for reprisals considering that among the perpetrators, some happens to security officers.
Naturally, I made lots of careless mistakes during my journey — from logistic mishaps to
cultural taboos.
It's a bit of
a cultural taboo to take food out of your mouth in Japan, so these sticks of pineapple - flavored «gum» are actually taffy made to look and chew like gum.
Tapping onto different topics such as body politics, sexual expression, and
cultural taboos, the paintings the artist made while residing in different cities like Los Angeles and Paris chronicle his turbulent biography.
Despite
a cultural taboo, Namdakov has addressed the subject of Genghis Khan, sculpting the great Mongolian leader in bronze (2003, 2011) and acting as art director in the film Mongol (2007), for which he received Russia's Nika Award for Best Art Direction.
Schneemann, Carolee (b. 1939) American Feminist artist who employs performance art, installations, paintings and video to represent her artistic values about the body,
cultural taboos and gender politics.