According to research done in 2016, one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives and around 450 million people currently suffer from these conditions, placing mental disorders amongst the leading causes of ill health and disability worldwide.

Born and raised in Canada, I was able to experience and appreciate the value of freedom and human rights. Growing up, I have always had my parents and grandparents tell me the stories of their motherland, and ultimately, why they left.

“Why do you smell like curry?” Are you going to have to get an arranged marriage?” Don’t you like worship cows or something?” Fielding ignorant questions like these was just an average day in the life of growing up in South Georgia.

As we grow older and have more confidence to think for ourselves, the damage of toxic parenting and dysfunctional families is not easy to forget. Often our trauma is internalised within us and creeps back every now and then.

Millennials and Gen-Z kids use social media to get their message across, whether that message is their angst, #ootd, lunch, or ideology. Platforms such as Instagram give people from all over the world the chance to connect and talk about common interests, such as activism.

Harvard has a problem. It’s not privilege, a high suicide rate, classism, sexism, or even ineffectual, overpaid professors. Those aren't problems, they're just hallmarks of the Ivy League. The problem is Asians.