However, the front line and first experience of discrimination, prejudice and exclusion directed against Dominican-born children of Haitian descent – which has deep-seated roots in Dominican history and culture – comes from civil registry officials charged with determining whether the newborns brought before them are eligible for Dominican nationality.
Through an in-person summer orientation and subsequent online interactions, I've gained a framework for more fully understanding the deep-seated roots of many of these issues, and with the skills and resources to design more effective responses to them.
Both the brazen nature and scope of the Petrobras scandal underscore the deep-seated roots of graft, fraud and bribery in Brazilian politics--a pedigree not unique to any one party.
Furthermore, biopsies are not feasible when deep-seated roots or cranial nerves are involved.
As a deep-seated problem, rooted in dysfunctional families, it is more easily tackled in a speech than a classroom.
Regrettably, it seems that this latest uproar, just like the unrest last autumn regarding the Temple Mount, is yet another example of the general Palestinian unwillingness to accept and acknowledge the deep-seated historical roots of the Jewish people in the region.
There were lots of tears of happiness and self-pinching to see if it all was really true - feelings that most of us white Americans could share to a point but weren't able to fully tap into -- a well of deep-seated emotions rooted in generations of struggle to have an equal place at the American table.
If you find that small, seemingly meaningless occurrences tend to dredge up heavy emotions and incite memories of past transgressions, then something deep-seated and rooted in the past is likely the cause of current tensions.
And so Obama in his first speech from overseas called for a reform of our justice system in which these deep-seated biases are "rooted out".
Enough also to awaken some deep-seated Democratic angst rooted in the trauma of 2000, when some blamed Green party candidate Ralph Nader's presence in Florida for costing Al Gore the general election and sending George W Bush to the White House.
