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As people perceive other groups to be more economically secure, they often turn to ethnicity as an anchor, particularly if those who are economically better off belong to a different ethnic group. This is not mere jealousy, but a need for every person to be economically secure, exacerbated by the inability or refusal of those who possess wealth to equally distribute resources. Whether it is the peasants in rural Nigeria, the impoverished "indigenous" people of Liberia, or blacks in Mauritania, they are all pushed into conflict by socio-economic needs.