【正文】 lie , it is not so bad as ordinary lie (general lies) or black lie (sinister lies) . Some black people plain that even in the semantics, the black word appears ugly and mean. In addition, using nigger, boy words to address the adult black man has obvious means of contempt. Now, except for the racial discrimination view to insult the black deliberately, these words have very few use.However, in the United States, not only black people have epithet but some other countries or the race have epithet. Such as the Italian people are called dagos, the jews are called kikes , the polish are called Polacks, the Chinese are called chinks。 The old, is the face veil which the mother has ever used, in order to show the kindness of the parents, face veil is a symbol which they will be happy and lucky in the future just like their parents 。 Blue is the blue ribbon tying on bride’s wrest ,which is a symbol of loyalty to her love. It is said that this will bring good luck to the bride. And in China, relatives and friends sending gifts to the new couples need to be cautious, because there are some things can39。 More important is, people should pay much attention to the feelings of those discriminated person and experience his or her feeling. As long as people understand social inequality, they can possible to avoid speaking to women or other racial countries discriminatelty, no matter consciously or unconsciously. in religion and superstition Superstition phenomenon and a country39。 Malice, ghostly, conspiracy, etc.In recent decades, China39。s rural residents often live in a village with hundreds of families, crowded in a small piece. In the north of China people live very close in the quadrangle dwellings or big megafamily. They often municate with others so that their personal life is not hard to be known or intervention. This kind of situation is not the same with western. In western countries, the typical family is single detached houses and surrounded by a big yard or garden. Another reason could be the Chinese people have unity and friendship spirit for a long time. They live toghter and help each other. This kind of situation is pletely different to the western value of privacy.There have three points about this. In English, some expressions are deliberately vague. If somebody say”I 39。s your religion? Are you Catholic? Western people attach importance to privacy, so they don39。t call aunt, mama hurriedly corrected, She is grandma.Don39。本文涉及的禁忌有姓名、稱呼、性別、種族、宗教、迷信等和我們生活息息相關(guān)的方面，旨在能通過對這些方面的了解與研究能幫助讀者在交流的時(shí)候不會(huì)觸及對方的禁忌而感到尷尬甚至影響雙方的關(guān)系。s life. This thesis mainly introduced the Chinese and western cultural taboo from the definition of taboo to origin, then to the differences between Chinese and western cultural taboos, and finally research how to avoid touching these taboo in daily munication. This thesis involves these taboos of name, address, gender, race, religion, superstition and other espects relate to our through these research readers will not touched others’ taboo and even influence people’s relationship in munication.Key words: Chinese and western。 origin of taboo。 they say that if the King should happen to go into a house belonging to a subject, that house would be Taboo and never more be inhabited by the owner。m younger than you.American women blushed with shame and smiledjust call my aunt. I like it.Why American woman feel embarrassed in such occasion? Because when treating on age ,Chinese people and American people have different attitude.For most English and American, it’s inappropriate to ask about the strange or not familiar person with their age. In addition,it’s impolite to enquire others’ ine, marriage, political affiliation and religious belief.Therefore, when talking to foreigners, people should avoid asking the following questions, though the Chinese people don39。t want others to ask meanings. Personal includes personal affairs (private business), personal private affairs, person concern (private concerns), etc. An English proverb: A man 39。t want to do anything or participate in some activity or refuse to other people39。s title changes. The word jia li de。s superstitious taboo also have its certain cultural roots ,and in the role of the biggest is religious. The Number Taboos Number Taboos in Western CultureLanguage is the carrier of , as a part of the language form, of course accumulates rich cultural information. In the ancient tradition, number has the divine meaning, have the religious color of dominating the good or ill luck. But to the number, different nationality have different options and different preferences, it has a profound national cultural cachet.As is known to all, for most westerners number 13 is absolutely an unlucky number. For example, in the west, house address would never in 13 number. In the national lottery, people never printed 13 number. Whether domestic or international flights, the plane seats have not row 13. In the cinema, it also have no number 13 row 13. Many skyscrapers, dweller building and apartment’s floor build from 12th floor direct to 14th floor,and no 13th floor. If developers want to sell out 13 th floor successfully, they have to change it to 12B or 12 layer and a half. And the fear of number 13 to many people has affected their daily life. When they go out in the 13th day in a mouth,they won’t take a car or a plane. Because they think that that time go out is likely to meet disaster. And if that 13th day is just the Friday, that is more an unlucky day, people will be afraid in the ceiling on the disastrous event. In that way , where is the taboo of number e from? That is related to the religion legends in western countries. It is said that before the era of Jesus that was Scandinavia Era. One night, 12 gods was invited to the god of the scourge and disputes attended the dinner without authorization so that the total number changed to fighting happened. The god39