persist

But whatever the precise 8th-century start, it persisted for the next 300 years.

It takes people who decide to persist despite that.

This mythos persists today— even as new discoveries reveal just how little we know of the Viking world, and shapes that once seemed certain recede into the thick mist of time.

Carpentier seems to be saying that whether animal or human-animal, oppression and abuses of power persist.

So of everything you've studied across hundreds of years and centuries, are there aspects of human nature that kind of persist?