Over the years, we have seen how some misguided individuals and groups (humanitarian NGOs) have abused the magnanimity and hospitality of the Government and people of Eritrea and have engaged in activities designed to weaken Eritrea, undermine its budding institutions, undermine its history, create and manufacture “dissent”, incite student riots, incite “religious conflicts” and more.

Discussions about lifestyle might have existed for generations or even dating back to the origins of humanity itself. The phrase lifestyle was initially coined by an Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929, but its current broader usage dates back to the early 1960s. For the sake of clarifying the message that I want to communicate through this article, I define lifestyle as something that typically reflects an individual’s, group’s or nation’s attitudes, values and worldviews; and happiness as characteristic of enjoyment and gratification with what one can afford to have in life.

Almost all societies lead their life on the basis of the traditional knowledge and skills they had accumulated over the ages. At this age, however, things are not as they had been before. These traditions that persisted for a very long time balancing the internal and external harmony of peoples have become folktales to be told as they had existed once.