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Adhering to Cultural Norms Can Help Immigrants Elicit Acceptance, Study Finds

New research finds Germans are less likely to help a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, but this bias fades if she demonstrates agreement with the national consensus that littering is bad.

Tom Jacobs

Signs mark fenced-off areas of Varosha, a quarter in the city of Famagusta, Cyprus, which until 1974 was a popular seaside resort. The buildings seen in the background are abandoned beach hotels that attracted Hollywood movie stars until the country's division.

Social Justice

Touring the Ghost Towns of Cyprus

Yiannakis Rousos offers visitors a tour of the home he still hopes to reclaim—and a glimpse of the true cost of this prolonged conflict.

Kira Zalan

Field Notes: Sunbathing Among the Ruins of a Shipping Vessel

Zante Island, Greece: The remains of a cigarette ship that met its demise in October of 1980.

Pacific Standard Staff

Migrants from Afghanistan arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 6th, 2018, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy. More than 1,500 refugees and migrants have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in the first seven months of the year, according to the United Nations.

Social Justice

Viewfinder: Afghan Refugees Arrive in Greece

Migrants from Afghanistan arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 6th, 2018, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy.

Pacific Standard Staff

An aerial view shows damage caused by a wildfire near the village of Mati, near Athens, on July 24th, 2018. More than 70 have died and 170 have been injured in wildfires ravaging woodland and villages in the Athens region. The death toll soared with a Red Cross official reporting the discovery of 26 bodies in the courtyard of a villa at the seaside resort of Mati.

Environment

Viewfinder: Surveying the Damage From the Wildfire Outside Athens, Greece

An aerial view shows damage caused by a wildfire near the village of Mati, near Athens, on July 24th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

A firefighting helicopter flies over a wildfire raging in the town of Rafina near Athens, on July 23rd, 2018. At least five people have died and more than 20 have been injured as wildfires tore through woodland and villages around Athens on Monday, while blazes caused widespread damage in Sweden and other northern European nations.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: A Massive Wildfire Outside Athens, Greece

A firefighting helicopter flies over a wildfire raging in the town of Rafina near Athens, on July 23rd, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures as he delivers a speech during a parliamentary session in Athens on December 19th, 2017.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: A Parliamentary Session in Athens

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures as he delivers a speech during a parliamentary session in Athens on December 19th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

A firework explodes during clashes between protesters and police in central Athens on December 6th, 2017, at a demonstration commemorating 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2008. Masked youths threw stones and vandalized property during the annual protests.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: A Fiery Political Demonstration in Athens, Greece

A firework explodes during clashes between protesters and police in central Athens on December 6th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

A man helps evacuate a woman from a flooded street in Mandra, Greece, on November 16th, 2017. A sudden overnight downpour flooded three towns near Athens, killing at least 15 people.

Environment

Viewfinder: Flash Floods Hit Greece

A man helps evacuate a woman from a flooded street in Mandra, Greece, on November 16th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff

A boat floats on polluted water on the coast of Salamis Island on September 13th, 2017, in Salamis, Greece. The small tanker, Agia Zoni II, sank on September 10th while anchored off the coast of Salamis, near Greece's main port of Piraeus. It was carrying a cargo of 2,200 tons of fuel oil and 370 tons of marine gas oil. Salamis Island has suffered heavy pollution as a result, in what has been called a "major environmental disaster" by officials.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: A Crude Oil Spill Covers the Greek Bay

A boat floats on polluted water on the coast of Salamis Island on September 13th, 2017, in Salamis, Greece.

Pacific Standard Staff