Again, the reasons are vague, inchoate: "… he realised that the hunt that he had arranged with Miller was only a stratagem, a ruse for himself, a palliative for ingrained custom and use.
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.
The poor quality of oral health may be the product of numerous factors, including mountainous terrain resulting in social isolation, relative absence of fluoridated water, culturally ingrained health-impairing customs, poor knowledge of health-promoting behavior, and low priority attached to dentition.
Wherever officials are poorly paid, their careers fragile and the custom ingrained, overt or covert bribery may thrive.
That civilization was destroyed in the Civil War, but the racism survived, in the form that Wright himself described so unsparingly in the first part of "Black Boy" and in the essay "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow": as part of a deeply ingrained pattern of custom and belief.
(There's no basis in French law for the madame/mademoiselle binary, but the custom is deeply ingrained).
