General Taheri, Soraya's father, is a former general who prefers collecting welfare to lowering himself to a blue-collar job. Baba refuses welfare and tries to work at jobs beneath him until he dies. Both long for the past and want to return to Afghanistan.
They were both men of social standing in their home country: in America, they feel isolated and estranged from their values.
Social isolation is a state of total or near total contactlessness between an individual and society. It differs from loneliness, which reflects a temporary and involuntary lack of contact with the rest of the world.
Social isolation has similar characteristics in both transient cases and those with historical lifelong cycles of isolation.
All forms of social isolation include staying home for long periods of time, not communicating with family, acquaintances, and friends, and/or intentionally avoiding contact with others when the opportunity arises. It is included.
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