Cultural drag or "stickiness"
The tendency of human behavior to be reinforced by cultural or inherited mores and traditions even when the situation demands adaptive changes to rapidly altered conditions -- even, or especially, when stress builds to even the point of becoming a life threatening situation. See the "titanic effect."
An ignorance fostered by outmoded traditions.
Capacity is often hard to see because reality masks the clues.
See also:
culture, cultural stickiness, social lag, ideology, cultural drag, cultural landscape, culture cores
Some nations have more cultivated land as a percentage of the full area than do others.
India possesses 57 percent while China has only 13.5 percent arable land.
