The word 'perpetuates' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is continuous or done repeatedly, or when referring to something that is repeatedly maintained over a period of time. For example, "Parents who practice positive discipline with their children often perpetuate healthy relationships between family members."
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has failed to protect female migrant domestic workers from beatings, hunger, overwork, underpayment and forced labour, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, urging authorities in the Gulf State to end the traditional kafala visa sponsorship system, which perpetuates much of the exploitation.
Muehlenhard acknowledges that some people in the study thought pretending was a good idea, but says that it can have negative outcomes: your partner will get inaccurate feedback about what works for you during sex, if you get found out it can damage trust and, at a cultural level, it perpetuates inaccurate expectations about women's orgasms.
And it is priced at a level that perpetuates poverty in coffee-producing nations.
The university perpetuates a very specific and – in our view – very destructive monolithic world vision.
Given a history in which invidious distinctions were used as instruments of oppression, it is natural to ask whether an exhibition defined by race just perpetuates an outmoded way of thinking.
For the world's aspiring billions, it is the ultimate symbol of status and freedom, even if it perpetuates mankind's addiction to oil.
The problems of migrants and of income inequality are deeply entrenched in two pillars of discriminatory social policy that have stood since the 1950s and must be dealt with before real change can come: the household registration system, or hukou, and the collective ownership of rural land.Who will pay?The hukou perpetuates a rigid caste system.
Now it is mutating into a monster that perpetuates the very problems that it was designed to solve.
This perpetuates Iraq's dependence on state-rationed imports, and since oil earnings cannot be used to pay government salaries leaves its teachers, doctors and nurses short of a living wage.
As your correspondent points out, only the Chinese gain from the division in Tibetan society it perpetuates.
Africa Check says that claims about a "white genocide," for instance, "creates or entrenches existing racial divisions and perpetuates an unfounded fear and hatred of other races".
