Why is the West full of totems and the East of taboos?

Question

Look closely at western culture of totems and eastern culture of taboos.

Answer 1

I'd class this question as very over simplified and way over generalized. If you condsider a "totem" to be equivalent to a religious/spiritual symbol and a "taboo" equivalent to something socially prohibited, then both eastern and western cultures have both. Of course the word totem and it's meaning come from Native Americans (actually a specific tribe) which would loosely make it western culture and taboo is tongan, which is small part of the many different eastern cultures; so to generalize the entire western or eastern cultures from two non-representitive ones is a large stretch.

Answer 2

The American Indians & Inuits made totems & they stayed mostly to the West. The East has taboos? I live in the North East & I don't know what you are taking about! I have no taboos!