The tassel that graduates transfer from one side of the cap to the other as a sign of their elevation is an outgrowth of the medieval biretta worn by Roman Catholic clergy.
It never became firmly established here as a folk custom, however, and today's elaborate New Year's parade in Philadelphia is the only organized outgrowth of English mumming in the United States.
The authoritarian personality theory sees prejudice as the outgrowth of a certain personality profile – one that’s associated with authoritarianism, or the desire for order, tradition, and strong leaders who will maintain the status quo.
So like a cloud is really an outgrowth of the Futurist obsession with air travel-- calling themselves arrow painters and arrow poets, and including lots of airplane imagery and even sounds in their cookery and banquets.