Sure, the “it’s just their culture” thing might sound good for a while, but the crimes keep happening just the same and then one day you wake up and the Abyssinians and the Diamond Dogs have put aside more than a hundred years of strife to openly march side-by-side in the streets against it, so now what do you tell them?
“With pegasus wings, you can go anywhere you want,” she said to herself, out loud.
I think she’s just doing something a bit different with her mane. I wouldn’t worry about it.