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#PrayforFrance #PrayforSyria #PrayforUSA. These hashtags were very popular when negative situations arose. The media chooses what to show and who sees it. People in Libya are being sold for under $500 as slaves. They are being tortured, raped, and killed. Not many people know about this crisis. Focus on countries that don't involve your own. People in Libya are BEING SOLD and we haven't even started talking about it in the news yet.

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To a degree they do it to themselves, they have options to get help but they usually don't choose it. People who are addicted to phones choose not help themselves and only make it work

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We are not typically happy unless we have everything, but people in third world countries are so happy with the simple things (being alive)

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- Land acknowledgement over PA
- On going struggle
- Very distressing
- Resedential Schools
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous women

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Mental illness is taken as a joke. Overexaggerating mental illness and romanticizing it is not breaking the stigma, it is adding to it. Anxiety and depression are not "beautiful". They are diseases in mind. That doesn't mean that person suffering from it isn't worthy of being beautiful, but treating mental illness as if it's a desirable trait is wrong. Just like pneumonia isn't pretty, neither are mental illnesses.

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Some children need money in order to support their families if they aren't able to to get a proper education. Not all child labor is bad it just depends on how it's done.

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Mental Illness: There is a stigma around mental illness, and we don't acknowledge it as much as we should. We are blind to it and don't want to believe it goes on. It isn't easy to get help, and it is hard to deal with. Mental illness is still made less important than physical health.

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Everyone is afraid to be wrong, or be judged by others. We forget we are all human

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It is kept a secret from society, no one wants to realize that we aren't such a free country
Residential schools are taboo in society, but we must discuss it in order to make a change

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Complexity: we typically shy away from things that are too complex because we don't want to involve ourselves. We also have our own things going on, and don't want to deal with more than our own issues. For example, there are wars going on, but we don't involve ourselves because it doesn't affect us directly. If it were our families getting killed, we would feel more inclined to help. Since it doesn't affect us, we don't think about it.

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We ignore where our clothes come from. Alot  of big brands use sweat shops to produce their clothes, but few people actually know who made their sweater or pants. It makes people feel guilty when they think about this, but we continue to support those companies nonetheless

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People don't realize it is an actual illness. There is no quick fix, it's a long term solution

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Making mistakes makes you appear weak

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Bullying: We pretend it doesn't exist because we don't want to get involved in it. We don't want to be involved in the trouble, or want to necessarily believe that bullying is still prevalent nowadays.

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- Truancy
- Social Isolation
- Not taken seriously
- Downplayed
- It SUCKS
- Hard to deal with

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People assume that charities keep the money based on their past experiences. No one ever thinks to research where money goes. There are charities that do take the majority of the money. But for the ones that don't, there is negative energy surrounding the idea of giving $30 a month, because people don't know where the money is going. Take a look at the "About Us" page on a website. Many charities tell you EXACTLY where the money is going. And the people who say, "Why are charities spending money on ads rather than giving that money to the poor?" Advertisements brinin TONS of revenue in which gathers supporters. More money is made than spent on advertisements. Charities are used to help people all around the world in situations that are dangerous, or worse than ours. Saying that all of them are terrible and sharing a fake post on the internet keeps people from donating, which hurts the people in need.

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It is still less important that physical health. If you break your arm, it it easily recognized, but if you struggle with depression, it's up to you to get help

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Depression- to a degree we believe that it has become too much of a normality in our society that it used to be under diagnosed and now it's over diagnosed and people exaggerate "Depression"
Anxiety-it is a widely talked about topic

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We don't want to see it because those people seem "scary" or "sketchy". People think that if you give homeless people money they will spend it on their addictions

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We choose to ignore the cruelty involved with our food production
The effects that the industry has on the environment- climate change, clean water, etc

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Police brutality; abuse of power
Lack  of opportunity

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Specifically in Cambridge we believe that they will use the money for drugs, but in Canada in general homelessness is a problem because it's hard to deal with such harsh weathers

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Homelessness: We feel nervous and anxious when walking by homeless people. We typically associate homeless people with mental illness and addiction, which makes us nervous. We also tend to feel bad and want to help, but we don't necessarily know how.

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We tend to handle situations as a joke, we don't take problems seriously, to make it seem less of a reality. I want to make a change, but I know that whatever I do won't have much of an impact. When we see people on the street, we are confused whether or not to sympathize with them because we don't know their story.

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The stigma behind homelessness is spoken in a general way, rather than on an individual case. Many people, at work or in schools, assume all homeless people are drug addicts and it's their fault. It upsets me, because I volunteer at the Bridges shelter and heard their stories, and hearing people assume their situations are influenced by drugs really makes me mad. Every story is different. You can't assume someone's past.