text: what topics of discussion do you think americans have the most difficulty in talking about publicly? we live in a free and open society. yet there are great divisions in our culture, and things in our history that we seldom talk about in a deliberative dialogue. what, in your mind, is at the top of this list, and why. well what first comes to my mind is sex, religion and political matters of course. but too, thousands of men and women die each year from colon cancer. its a subject alot of people just dont want to talk about. i know. i have chrohns disease. its very embarrasing at times explaining to ones exactly what the disease entails.