L’Armenia è il terzo paese più arrabbiato al mondo secondo il Gallup World Poll

[2025 Gallup World Poll data](https://www.gallup.com/analytics/349280/state-of-worlds-emotional-health.aspx)

Anger is a natural state that follows trauma. And it typically leads into bargaining, which some may say the Armenian government is currently engaging in to deal with past traumas.

In 1969 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a psychiatrist, wrote “On Death and Dying” which describes the steps experienced by those confronted with death. Her theories subsequently have been expanded to explain reactions to disasters in general. Kübler-Ross states that the initial reaction to a disaster is shock and denial, a point from which many people never progress. If the denial is overcome, it is replaced by anger, making decisions difficult because all of one’s energy fuels the emotion. Subsequent steps are bargaining, depression/grief and, finally, acceptance.

I wrote a chapter about how our musical preferences within the Armenian community were influenced by these steps in response to the trauma of the Armenian Genocide.

[From Charles Aznavour to System of a Down: Western Musical Perspectives of the Armenian Genocide](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232355743_From_Charles_Aznavour_to_System_of_a_Down_Western_Musical_Perspectives_of_the_Armenian_Genocide)