Thousands of individuals who may never have been discovered to have committed a crime journey to police stations within hours of the act to confess. Fat or skinny, no one hesitates to strip off clothes and jump in baths together. The awfulness on display at karaoke clubs is both legendary and accurate. And yet really important bad-news topics are off limits. More than half of the cancer patients are never told they have cancer.
Children are unable to speak to their parents about bullying at school.
A few badly troubled ones hang themselves and admit their problem only in the note they leave. Their teachers and school administrators express shock at any suggestion bullying exists. Sexual and physical abuse at some schools, sometimes blatantly open, goes unreported and un-discussed. Most political or social scandals are well known months before the news breaks in mainstream media - if it ever does. The massacre at Nanjing during the occupation of China never happened.