Exploring taboo culture: a cross-cultural analysis of taboos in China and Malaysia
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Taboos occur in intercultural communication and can sometimes lead to misunderstandings, obstacles, and conflicts in cross-cultural communication. The objective of this study was to compare the similarities and differences between the Chinese and Malay taboo cultures. The study used qualitative research method, and the design was based on Giles’s Communication Accommodation Theory using the narratives research approach. The findings show that many differences exist in the taboos of Chinese and Malay communities in terms of lifestyle, such as food, gift-giving, and greetings. It is concluded that strengthening cultural exchange could lead to better intercultural communication and cooperation towards achieving mutual tolerance and understanding. The findings imply that understanding taboos will create awareness and strengthen international relations between the two countries. Future studies can focus on other linguistic elements.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it