Comparing the Taboo Level Between Chinese Society and European Society

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_110How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Privacy taboo; Salary taboo; Stereotype; Chinese; Westerner; Comparison

Abstract

The level of taboos in Chinese and European societies has been discussed not only in some literatures and also in daily life. However, it is mostly reflected that European people have a higher level of taboos about privacy than Chinese people, and overarching claim that this phenomenon is attributed to the differences in living environment and the communal spirit between China and the west. After contrasting past arguments, the paper finds that the widely accepted theories that European people have a higher level of taboos about privacy than Chinese people and the two reasons which is the differences in living environment and the communal spirit between China and the west that they put forward do not fit the data. Thus, this paper argues the level of taboo in two societies cannot be simply defined as which one is higher than the other. It can be considered that the degree of social taboos is closely related to the development of society.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziqian Ling
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - Comparing the Taboo Level Between Chinese Society and European Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1162
EP  - 1168
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_110
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_110
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