The power of race, however, derives not from its pseudoscientific markings but from its cultural trappings.

When people transfer to another country, they find it easier to shed the psychological or cultural trappings of home.

He claims that the dharma needs to be free of cultural trappings to take root.

With the introduction of slavery to the colony, the island experienced an influx of Africans who brought with them the cultural trappings of their own tribes.

His words are free from cultural and religious trappings, and the knowledge he expounds is stripped bare of all that is unnecessary.

Purely American "cultural trapping will get peeled away," she said.

They identify more with the cultural trappings of Judaism - the music, the cuisine, the humor - than with the teachings of the Torah.

While never abandoning her Islamic beliefs, Mirza has reacted sharply against its cultural trappings.

Horde, which nearly sold out the 11,000-seat amphitheater in the fourth stop on its current tour, also came with cultural trappings.

Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, Elmira acquired various cultural trappings, including a brass band (1873) and a library (1885), which boasted an initial membership of 20 people.