Majid, Iran
I am from Ahvaz, province of Khuzestan in the south of Iran. I am 38 years old, married and have a 16-year-old daughter. I arrived in Germany in 2019. In Iran, I hadRead More
Naseem, Afghanistan
I was born in Afghanistan but left the country once the Taliban first took over. My family and I escaped to Pakistan, where I continued school. I returned to Afghanistan in 2003 afterRead More
Loneliness, unhappiness, consumerism and its political consequences: observations and
Twenty years ago, the American political psychologist Robert E. Lane (1917 – 2017) published The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (2000). In it, he showed that Westerners (and Americans in particular) wereRead More