Hughes, like Waugh, entered a lineage whose ingrained customs and rituals were on display all this summer.
The effort was aimed at building on momentum from the inaugural "Wear Pants to Church" day a year ago and marked a break with deeply ingrained customs for women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religion known for itSaintsiareligionructure.
The core of an ethnic culture, such as religion and ethnic identity, are deep-rooted customs dating back thousands of years, they are ingrained and are difficult to change, and are also difficult to share with other ethnic groups.
People tend to be less critical of beliefs that are deeply ingrained by customs and habits.
Historically, she says, societies developed methods of dealing with their local climates, and those tools and behaviors became ingrained cultural customs.
The program here in Satara is a pilot program — one of several initiatives across the country that have used a softer approach — trying to slow down population growth by challenging deeply ingrained rural customs.
Wherever officials are poorly paid, their careers fragile and the custom ingrained, overt or covert bribery may thrive.
