Marginal cultures in the past have rightfully entered the mainstream through business, taking money from the majority and infusing it into their own tribes.
A foreign diplomat adds that countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which might in the past have blocked a Gulf upstart from flaunting such ambition, no longer have the will to try.
Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.
Studies in the past have claimed that moderate alcohol consumption can lower the risk of heart disease, while an anti-oxidant found in red wine is thought to contain cancer fighting properties.
Newly remastered recordings of great pianists of the past have increasingly demonstrated what Romantic playing sounded like a century ago, and it is not what the fragile and aged Nyiregyhazi mustered.