A Papua New Guinea language has a term for this: Mokita. It means "truth that
we all know but agree not to talk about."

http://www.sigmaxi.org/amsci/articles/95articles/Hunt-full.html


This article is very interesting, but I found it quite difficult reading. (My short term memory
is not what it used to be.) It presents reasons for being concerned that our society
is making a mistake in spending a lot of money on the culturally disadvantaged, and too
little on the gifted who are certain to be more vital to our future. "Mokita" is a sort of
clue that the article is rampantly politically incorrect.

Dear wow: I put URL back together, as no way I could get it to work
when split.