G R O U P F E E L I N G

... When a tribe has achieved a certain measure of superiority with the help of its gourp feeling, it gains control over a corresponding amount of wealth and comes to share prosperity and abundance with those who had been in possession of these things. It shares in them to the degree of its power and usefulness to the ruling dynasty. If the ruling dynasty is so strong that no-one thinks of depriving it of its power or of sharing with it, the tribe in question submits to its rule and its satisfied with whatever share in the dynasty´s wealth and tax revenue it is permitted to enjoy...

Ibn Khaldun