Furthermore, the primordialist argument "suggests that irreconcilable differences due to cultural gaps cause fear and conflict that beget violence".[9] Although more recent historical studies have purported that the 1994 genocide in Rwanda was a result of disparities in power and wealth between the Tutsi and the Hutu, primordialists assert that the Hutu and Tutsi developed entirely separate cultures and will thereby inevitably come into conflict with one another. As primordial ethnicity is archaic, "fixed and unchanging", the possibility for cultural assimilation within Rwanda was presented as impossible.[10]