For me happiness is the result of an inner harmony between the physiological and mind. All external actions are benevolent to me than clicks. Thus happiness is whether to make for himself.

As a person I agree that happiness starts from ourselves. As a scientist I think that the happiness arises from the solution of an unsolved problem. 

It would be nice but solipsistic to put a problem myself and solve it. The satisfaction is founded on some form of competition with other scientists provided you make some relevant steps towards the solution and do not limit yourself to finding easy applications or corollaries.

For me happiness is the result of an inner harmony between the physiological and mind. All external actions are benevolent to me than clicks. Thus happiness is whether to make for himself.

As human beings every person desires for the action ,for the result , of his successful assignment & if he receives the favorable result as per his liking & choices he get happiness for himself .

In other cases man is social animal & he always works for his family & his social surrounding .For the family of their desire he works & carry the responsibilities to satisfied their need obvious he works for happiness for others.

However if it not of place if i submit views in one of my publication which i submit herewith for your perusal 

Dear Fadel,

you have a very spiritual vision of the concept of happiness and a very fatalistic approach. Do not you believe that happiness involves a socializing action with Others.

Dear Rohit,

I I glimpse in the way you think a balanced view of happiness. The vision is still mainly based on cause / effect. You do not think very often happiness depends on unexpected events created from the randomness of events?

According to Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, a Psychology professor in University of California, Riverside, U.S.A., an acclaimed author of bestseller book,

"The How of Happiness", the 50% of the happiness levels of a human being are influenced by his genetics; 10% by his life circumstances and external conditions; and rest 40% are determined by his own attitude, choices and actions. Thus, we have complete control over the 40% of the factors determining our happiness which in fact is the secret of well-being, success, happiness and joy in life.

Even Dale Carnegie once said, “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”

http://www.winjoylife.com/2013/08/happiness-of-our-life-depends-upon.html

Dear Subhash,

thanks so much for the data you reported. I do not think that the percentage of the controlled happiness by humans is 40% in all actions they perform. There are material or spiritual accomplishments that depend entirely on chance and others are dependent to a considerable part by the action of the individual.

The statistic, however, does not report how much happiness depends on the mental attitudes!

Dear Tareq,

Your vision is holistic, but why so much pessimism in your conclusion. Do you think that violence in any case will prevale?

Dear Marcovic,

I would be very glad that what you say were true! Unfortunately, it does not.

Upright and righteous men are ignored, alone and unhappy, while crude individuals seem to be very happy and at peace with the world!

“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think. -Buddha”

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

--- Dalai Lama

Hey, that man created God and do everything for the sake of satisfying spiritual happiness achieved.

Hail, Ramezanali,

A totally original and agnostic vision !

The main stream thinks otherwise.

Dear George,

I agree on triggers, but how to make it last this happiness?

Dear Rajesh,

Has this statement of Buddha anticipated by several centuries the psychological approach of "positive thinking"?

Dear Tareq,

thank you so much for youe detailed explanation, but in this  period dominated by science and technology, despite frequent frictions and local wars, we could check 71 years in which it has averted the threat of a world war!

I do not know what science has contributed to create local conflicts and war. Do not you think that maybe science and technology are not the causes of the war, but they are not closely correlated?

I think unless one learns how to become happy. it is impossible for him/her to feel happy.

Happiness depends on ourselves inasmuch as our subjectivity in relation to others. This means that our perception of how others regard us is key to happiness. However, there is also intrinsic sense of self which is aggregated by things we have accomplished, our view of culture, and how others view us.

Happiness depends upon ourselves or from others?

Think a person's happiness is depending on both him / herself & other surrounding people.  Reason being we heard the following sayings & people practicing them:

Sounds like it takes 2 hands clapping to make a noise.  Think the same applies to sadness i.e. surrounding people / sad events can't make us feel sad unless we want to allow that to happen.

Dear Austin,

I would be very unhappy if my happiness depended on the whims of others. It must also be intrinsically strong, but sometimes life puts us to the test regardless of our merit. Do you think you can be happy in those bad times in life when everything goes wrong?

Dear Anup,

I agree with you, but what is the recipe?

Dear Han Ping,

not always to please others you have to sacrifice yourself. According to me a certain degree of independence there must be. Pave the way to others often means hurt them and prevent them from growing.

Do you think is better a big momentary and fleeting happiness, or a small lasting happiness?

Good question, Dear Margherita: Humans are social beings. For good or for bad, nobody can be an island. Definition of happy according to Cambridge dictionary:

 “Feeling, showing, or causing pleasure or satisfaction”

So, at least in the context of this definition, perhaps it may depend also from the others …

… Perhaps the lack of happiness individual or collective may also increase when some influent persons are not interested in behaving or do what they should do, according to ethic basic rules, basic principles of justice and universal values.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/happy

re:

Dear Austin,

I would be very unhappy if my happiness depended on the whims of others. It must also be intrinsically strong, but sometimes life puts us to the test regardless of our merit. Do you think you can be happy in those bad times in life when everything goes wrong?

Happiness depends upon ourselves or from others? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Happiness_depends_upon_ourselves_or_from_others [accessed Jul 22, 2016].

I would say that this depends on how you are measuring happiness. And it is your relation to the perceptions of others which makes the difference. For example, Let's say you have been socially rejected from a peer group due to difficulties you have been experiencing. How you interpret this is key to to resilience. You could use it as proof that you are a bad person, or you could use it as proof that you are standing up for yourself and others don't care about you as much, or that they contribute to the problem rather than the solution.

If you think of a concentric model, beginning in your own subjectivity and sense of self, moving outward into the social, like rings on a tree; it is the relationship between yourself and each ring which determines your own sense of happiness. At the core of the concept of happiness is the self, or rather, the subjective interpretation of the self in relation to the self, to personal history, the environment, and others. However, many people allow for extrinsic determinants to control that subjective experience rather than utilizing overt means of re-interpretation or re-framing of personal challenges into pro-self and pro-social ways.

Dear all,

Our existence is a multidimensional phenomena where the parameters of happiness are from within and from without. The conformity of these variables/parameters  for longer time is the source of our happiness and the disparity or the nonconformity of them for longer times is reasons of our dissatisfaction and create unhappiness. 

Hi! Dear Antonio, Thank you for your balanced response. I do not think that the duty has to do with happiness, although the eminent personalities who do not behave as they should, I instinctively disliked!

Do not you think that happiness is more linked to pleasure than to duty?

Dear Margherita: I suppose that I understand your point of view and I tend to agree with you, at least in theory. It could lead us to a long and interesting discussion. However, we can find pleasure and happiness in every little thing. For example, I am able to feel some happiness/satisfaction when I observe some good answers RG from intelligent persons, like you or other RG members.

 "The essence of happiness is born in the hearts of charitable men" 

Hey, when you do God's work and pure is friendly and certainly not like being a newborn .

Dear Ting,

Human happiness that is well-being or inner satisfaction depends on many things. As our life becomes complicated more and more conditions and facts can influence it. Generally, the inner harmony/balance and strength of individual personality hugely influence our reactions to environmental changes which may affect and shape our desires and relationships. In a commercially and politically manipulated world outer controllers try to dictate how to live our personnel life and their manipulations determine the existence if we allow them.

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Herman Cain

I think the happiness starts from us and then it development with all of us

Dear Discussant,

the 'World Happiness Report'  of the UN classifies each year the most happy countries on the bases of  the following criteria: GDP per capita, Social support,  Healthy life expectancy, Freedom to make life choices, Generosity, the Trust or absence of corruption in government and business

The overall rank  for 2016 is: 1  Denmark ; 2   Switzerland ; 3  Iceland¸4  Norway; 5  Finland ; 6  Canada; 7  Netherlands; 8  New Zealand ; 9  Australia, 10  Sweden (for the next places in the graduatory see the link).

Do you agree with those criteria and with that ranking?

Is it possible to give a  misure of not-tangible criteria such as  the inner harmony?

It would be pleased  to receive your further comments.

Kind regards

T.F. Marg Chang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

Dear Ting Fa Margherita Chang

Our happiness always depends on us, and often only need to reach out to grab it.

© Indiana (George Sand)

Regards, Shafagat

Dear Shafagat,

I agree that the it is essential  to recognize that we can bring lasting happiness to grab it.

Very kind regards, Marg

I have met people who are always happy, so for some it comes from inside. Others are happy when everything around them including the current news stories MAKE them happy (for the moment).

If the on-going research, for example, has good results, that would lead to a - temporary- happiness.

Dear Michael,

What could give you lasting happiness? Is it different for men and for women?

This is truly funny. The west re-discovered happiness as an overall problem thanks t a Buddhist small country: Bhutan. Culturally speaking, happiness does mean completely different things in the framework of three mono-theist religions of the west and Buddhism - which is not a religion.

My point here is that the cultural framework does make a difference. Happiness as such does not exist, as a pure idea or a rough sentiment.

 Dear Margherita,

I said one should learn how to become happy. You asked "what is the recipe".

To answer this I quote from Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by Shailesh Parekh)

I am invited to the festival of joy in this world.

This mortal life is fulfilled.

Free of desires my eyes roam this flood of forms.

My ears are filled with serious melodies.

In your festival I have been asked to play the flute.

In each of the songs I will weave the smiles and sobs of the soul.

Has the moment arrived when I can go to your court, see you,

Listen to the call of victory and proceed.

Please allow me go a bit further in my previous argument.

It is a fundamental characteristic of the mindset of the three mono-theist religions that they practice sort of ecumenism or catechization -  which mean go to others and telling them that so far they have not been doing well. They should change and convert into new practices and beliefs. Shortly said: become happy.

Such a practice is contrary to Buddhism, where there is nothing - not even close - to catechisation or ecumenism. Each individual "arrives" to Buddhism, or not. In other words, each individual es happy, or not.

I know this is a sensitive issue and more than one colleague here may get irritated. Conclusion;: a down-vote. Well, just as Aristotle said: "I am a friend of yours, but I am mu h more a friend of truth".

''Happiness depends upon ourselves or from others?''

We are a social animal and so can only be happy with others.  To be happy is to be happy with others. . To be happy with others  depends on ourself AND on others being happy with us.  It thus depend on both ourselves and on others but in this equation only the first term can be changed by ourselve.

Let this day break with joy afresh,

Riding in the rays of the sun.

Let beauty of love spread across the blue sky of life.

Let the fount of fresh life erupt in breath of songs of hope.

Today, nectarine fragrance of flowers floats in the breeze of peace.

 AND YOU REMAIN HAPPY

If we let happiness depend on the others we will, in fact, never be completely happy for your state of happiness will eventually be perturbed by those that are not happy. On the other hand if we let happiness grow from our inner self we will be able to maintain a state of happiness that is contagious, and bring happiness to others. Easy to say....in practice we integrate all the input from outside and from the inside and arrive to a (possible, allowed) state of (non-perfect) happiness. That is why we are humans :-), not machines, not gods.

Dear Ting,

This report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report may be true but the given criteria are difficult to explain but much more difficult to measure. Generosity and trust are very obscure notions in the language of statistical methodology. Being Hungarian, I am citizen of a traditionally pessimist country which well represented by the 91st place. I am sure politicians should read similar lists in order to evaluate their performance if these politicians wanted to increase the wellbeing of their countrymen. It would be noteworthy to see the list of political corruption and to calculate the correlation between political thefts, corruption, autocracy and the happiness index of simple citizens.     

In the Tao Te Ching the hexagram No. 61 ZHONG FU - The Inner Truth, describes one of the most interesting archetypes of Humanity, one that embodies the desire to reach an understanding and trust themselves. An act of truth, in short, that consists in looking inside, without trying compulsively outside the causes of their behavior and happiness of what good or unpleasant is happening there. The ancient Chinese have named the "process" to reach the inner truth with the following two ideograms, which combined in unique expression give a sense of the intrinsic truth:

Dear Ting:

In my view, that ranking makes sense and reflects an aspect of social and cultural reality.

At the same time, transnational survey research shows that most people in most societies consider themselves happy. This also makes sense, since a society where most people is unhappy would be an unstable community.

In other words, the sources of happiness are culturally diverse and in general every society has the means for people to be reasonably satisfied with their lives .

Surveys have found occasionally places where a high proportion of people see themselves unhappy. This type of situation occurs in contexts of disaster or war, or it is often the prelude to social and political conflict.

In theory, happiness could/should depend only of each one of us. In practice we do not live in paradise. Okay anyone can build a resort in any time and forgetting everything outside of it. Some sort of Elitist Club closed or Private Paradise, but much probably it would not last for long time.

See the official song of Euro 2016 “This One's For You” from David Guetta/Zara Larsson that may have some relation with happiness, at least for the Portuguese that won the final and the Cup in extra time with a goal of an Hero that came to live in Portugal as a poor child with 3 years old and grew up in an Institution because their parents did not had conditions for living with him.

“We're born to fly

So let's keep living till it all falls down

Let's close our eyes

And let the moment shut the whole world out

We're in this together

Hear our hearts beat together!

We stand strong together

We're in this forever!

This one's for you!

This one's for you... (yeah yeah, hey)

(…)

”

https://www.vagalume.com.br/david-guetta/this-ones-for-you-feat-zara-larsson.html

http://observador.pt/2016/07/11/eder-a-vida-foi-lhe-dura-mas-deu-lhe-ouro/

Happiness is simply state of one's mind

Therefore it is with in us. Others may contribute positively or negatively. Still the feeling is one's own.

Happiness is a transitory state of life. 

Homo faber fortunae suae .

Homo faber suae felicitatis ?  

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Charles Spurgeon

I agree with Fadel.

Dear Mahfuz,

A very famous Italian economist, Sergio Ricossa, that I greatly admire has the same view as yours. , He was the leader of the libertarian movement based on the motto Property is a right Taxes are a theft and  author of the book 'Cursed Economistis". He  stated in one of his papers  'when I was young I used to regret the money I had spent in entertainment, excursions and with women. Now that I have reached maturity I realize that was the money I better spent in my life.

http://www.movimentolibertario.com/2016/03/sergio-ricossa-da-liberale-a-libertario/

Dear Ting,

But what is your own opinion on the ideas and practice Sergio Ricossa thought to be right?

Dear José,

Survivors must be happy and only they can prepare surveys, write studies and books. Losers generally remain silent.

i agree with Mr.Artur Braun.Really,it needs both.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

--- Norman Vincent Peale

"Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.” from Jonathan Haidt, "The Happiness Hypothesis"

Happiness mostly depend on ourselves and partly on others. We should becareful and rejoice ourselve despite terrible circonstances, refusing to stay confuse. Please! we ought to create that atmosphere to stay continuously in happiness. It is not easy but we can.

Valentin

Dear Artur,

You asked and answered: „Can an individual be happy without other people? Probably yes.” What do you think on the notice without other people? I am afraid, you cannot get even a mouthful of bread without the mutual work/activity of others. Can you live without being loved? I could not. I think one cannot be really happy if s/he thinks merely on him/herself. I am aware that we cannot be happy as an island in the ocean of unhappy people. One can be really happy if other people around him are happy too. The top of human evolution is or must be altruism!

Don't put the key to happiness in someone else's pocket. ~Author Unknown

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

It depends on situation. Most of the time, it depends on our self and sometimes on others.

Dear Andràs,

I admire a lot Sergio Ricossa as economist, but I disagree with him about his conception of happiness, first because his vision is male centered and I am a female and I have a romantic vision of happiness.

@Valentin,

How can you appreciate the happiness if you avoid the pain and sadness? I think that to really appreciate a joy we must have suffered!

It depends on ourselves.

Happiness is a harmony of a moment when all the physiological and psychological aspects of an individual are united by an internal or external event that is only the trigger. This moment is fleeting if the word happiness would have a different definition. If only we break the word Bonheur in the French language = bonne heure, demonstrates the notion of a moment.

Dear Artur,

Thanks. Thus your contribution in question was a philosophical self-comment.

Dear Ting,

I think many men may have romantic visions on happiness. Have not they?

Dear Andràs,

also men can have a romantic vision of happiness but it has been proven that for women the case is more frequent. I stated that Sergio Ricossa in that quotation has an approach not exactely on my woman spirit, but I know him and I suppose that his thought is not so black and white! 

Many men are romantic but I do not like much this attribute because for me one basic characteristic of men should be the strength! It is a biological and physiological feature of the man!

Dear Ting,

To be romantic may be a more frequent character in women than in men. Men are or tend to be rude and resolute. In generally. However, the standard deviation allows the existence a more sensible minority in their relationship to women. The problem of these times that the rate of offensive and vulgar women continually increases. I have seen women who were as obscene and rough that a coachman (these people were famous on their bad manners in Hungary) would be a gentleman compared to them. I think that there are some demand for soul fineness almost in each person, but one has not time enough to recognise it.

I think that mannish strength and the necessary “dose” of romanticism are not irreversible with each other.  

Dear András: I suppose that Margherita was and is just trying to be kind with everybody, even with Sergio Ricossa, …  and sometimes may be not easy … As she said indirectly, the sentence that she mentioned does not look a classic. As it looks that has already been shown in this discussion, romanticism and strength can coexist both in man as in woman. With respect to happiness related with love, it looks that there are no general rules (everything is possible?). Perhaps many men love strong women also (it may be reciprocal, at least sometimes?). In my opinion, women normally are strong, at least on their manner, it has to be, and otherwise our species would not survive.

Dear Andràs and Antonio,

I think that we're going on a slippery path. I favor an objective comparison of attitudes between genders  rather then an opposition.

We know that in this world there is everything. One can find both men and women rude and foul-mouthed. I personally am highly embarrassed in front of bad words, blasphemies etc .. Some people consider excessive this  my way of thinking.

Here we are talking of happiness. For a woman, one of the main components is to find in a man some features she appreciates. I had indicated strength, but may be that this feature is appreciated also for women.  

Dear Ting, your question seems to focus mainly on adults: job or money?, f.i.

However, we all know that the basic human experience in the world in general about happiness are our kids. A child is "by nature" happy - a ceteris paribus argument, indeed.

Happiness, it appears, is not the same, at all ages, is it? Accordingly, also not in every single culture.

Dear Margherita: I was just trying to be kind, even if we may eventually disagree with some particularities of this discussion.

In the link showing the ranking of happiness, Portugal is even in worse position than Hungary. It looks that only football saves us. Probably I do not have a very liberal vision of economy because it gave a country grey and unhappy during many years in Portugal in century XX with much misery and emigration. You can find currently Portuguese in every part of the world. Recently we had a similar approach and many people went working abroad for living because there were no jobs in Portugal.

It is not frequent that someone prefers rude and weak people, no matter the gender. But as in any rule, we can find exceptions (see the biblical case of Barabbas ...).

I concur with your way of thinking. In my opinion, correctness is never excessive, particularly for a Professor.

Our emotions (Happiness or Sadness) completely depend on ourselves.

Regards,                                          Leonid

I totally agree with Leonid.

Happiness is a state of mind so I should look for it inside my mind, not outside. I think I heard this from a yogi master. 

But I guess this is easier to say rather than doing it.

Dear Antonio,

What was the main message of your comment to me?

Dear Ting,

Dear All,

It may be that my idea has not been clearly formulated for many.

I wanted to say:

1.       Generally men are – or try to be strong and dominant.

They are often rude, some think it is the minimal condition to be a very man.

2.       Women are fine, mild and tolerant, generally.

3.       It is normal – I am sorry I am so conservative – when women are womanly or ladylike and men are virile. Unfortunately, these days – maybe this is a consequence of social evolution – more and more women try to behave like men. I personally do not like manly women. I am sorry. By the way, I have not written that women are rude, I wrote that among women there are some ill-mannered.

I have not had the idea to deal with the EU gender policy.

There are sayings that women are the fair or gentle sex, and men are the stronger sex. It is a basic misunderstanding. Women are not only the fair sex but also they are the stronger sex. However, they are so gentle to us that allow us to be called the stronger. 

Dear women,  

Thanks for your generosity and please, remain women!

Ideally, happiness should be self-centred rather than outward oriented. Generally, we tend to link our state of happiness with external factors when we should focus on internal factors. I personally believe that happiness is about depending only on ourselves and not on others.

Happiness is depends upon our self only, Satisfactions needed in our life, if you  want to get all the things in your life, you have to run in the race.  

One fine day you may get everything in your life, but at that time we may realized, for this we have spented  entire life, but no use.

Whether defeat or victory in  life with smile or silent face accept it, the entire happiness it may not go anywhere.

Of course searching new thing only in our life and it will helpful to live in the world. But at the same time the searching is not based on money, status or power, its based on what we are going to do in our life in the world.

Most research on the topic can only find correlations — if we absolutely knew that one certain thing made everyone happier, psychologists' jobs would be a lot easier. But researchers do think that as a rough estimate, something like 40% of our happiness is under our own control (with the rest being determined by genetics and external factors). That means there's a lot we can do to control our own happiness.

Here are nine happiness-promoting behaviors that are backed by science.- -- See link!

http://www.techinsider.io/happiness-traits-behaviors-characteristics-2016-7

The widespread interest in the World Happiness Reports, of which this is the fourth, reflects growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development. Because of this growing interest, many governments, communities and organizations are using happiness data, and the results of subjective well-being research, to enable policies that support better lives.

The World Happiness Report 2016 Update and supplemental files are available for download for free ---- see link!

http://worldhappiness.report/

Dear all,

So far there are no general evidence of the existence of a direct or inverse correlation between intelligence and happiness, but the argument of the happiness reveals daily surprising aspects althought someone states that ignorance is a bliss!

Psychologists demostrate that there is surely a correlation between the STABILITY of  happiness and intelligence! For mental health are important 3 elements: happiness, optimism, resilience. But what is the role of intelligence?

 A  "sample of almost 10,000 British people for whom he had childhood IQ scores—and happiness assessments for from ages 33, 42, 47, and 51” proves that the intelligence influences the stability of happiness. In fact, “people who were below average in intelligence experienced significantly more variability in their life satisfaction than did those who were above average".

Importantly, this was not due to differences in education, income, or job, although it was, in part, due to differences in health.”

What do you think?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/significant-results/201410/the-surprising-connection-between-intelligence-and-happiness

http://freakonomics.com/2009/01/15/is-ignorance-really-bliss/

http://syntheticremarks.com/?p=2213

“people who were below average in intelligence experienced significantly more variability in their life satisfaction than did those who were above average".

I am not sure whether its below or above average, because your work, job or achievement is appreciated from society, definitely we will get happiness or satisfactions in our life, infact here age is doesn't matter (Whether it may be child, boy or girl, men or women)

Of course previous ans. i have written the concept of globalization.

András: “What was the main message of your comment to me?” Thanks for asking. My main message for everybody was that I agree with you also. There are different contexts and levels of happiness and may be that sometimes we are speaking about very different things. In my opinion, nobody mentally healthy can be happy in the middle of a sea of people unhappy and suffering. Only a very stupid and egoistic person could be happy in an environment of terrorist attacks, bombs or systematic wars, for example.

There are persons more sensitive than others as there are persons more sincere than others. There is a Portuguese expression that I heard many times from my mother that raised 5 children (fortunately that we all have a biological mother): “coração ao largo” that means do not involve emotionally with the situations. If happiness depends only of ourselves, we all can take any quantity we wish, like everyone can do with holy water.

Portugal is a very beautiful country, very green, implanted near seaside, with long beaches of white and yellow sand, with many sunshiny days, and with wonderful and working people. Portuguese are known as humble persons and excellent workers in every part of the world. They keep normally the best memories of their homeland and they want to return one day, and football and the Portuguese teams (normally Benfica, Porto and Sporting, and the national team) are normally an important point of contact with their country. Historically, Portugal is a country older than Spain, oriented to the sea and with a lot of emigration to America and Africa, but also to central Europe mostly in the decade of sixties of century XX. Curious is that one of the oldest allied of Portugal is England.  Emigration is a cancer for the development of any country and, in the Portuguese case, there is no reason for that, unless wrong politics of development. Portuguese people can be happy in their country and without need to emigrate … Perhaps bad political leaders and politic class that traditionally occupy the power did not do what they should? It looks that they think just in their own benefit or in the benefit of their groups of interest, ignoring the populations and their conditions of living, which delayed the necessary development of the country? It is acceptable that a political leader advise the people of their country to emigrate?