Triandis and Suh also stated that “An important goal of collectivists usually have few in-groups, where individuals have many. Thus, the social obligations of collectivist are quite focused, whereas those of individualist are fluid and may be converted to obligations to larger society rather than to specific in-groups. Consistent with this observation, oysterman et al. (1998) found that collectivism increased obligation to the in-group while in-group membership was made salient.” This meaning that Collectivist are a tighter knit group of people that stick together and follow the same rules and traditions from generation to generation.