Nations such as Canada and the UK have an educational system such that you declare your major upon entering university while American institutions use a more liberal arts approach allows students 1-2 years to take whatever courses they want before settling on a major.

For undergraduate admissions, certain schools like McGill and Oxford only look at the classes a student took and their grades. By comparison, universities such as Stanford and Yale evaluate students on several factors, including their extra-curriculars, teacher/counselor recommendations, and several specially requested essays with pointed prompts.

"Cultural appropriation is the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices and occurs when a person from one culture adopts the fashion, iconography, trends, or styles from another culture, and typically more dominant people or society.

In 2019, Kim Kardashian, a prominent pop-culture figure and entrepreneur released a makeup palette with colour names in the Hawaiian language. And in the same year, she started a shapewear brand named ""kimono"" which is the traditional Japanese attire, after the immediate backlash, she renamed it. Both instances offended people for being instances of cultural appropriation. "

Neurodiversity refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions in a non-pathological sense. It emerged as a challenge to prevailing views that certain things currently classified as neurodevelopmental disorders are inherently pathological and instead, adopts the social model of disability, in which societal barriers are the main contributing factor that disables people.

Geoengineering is the deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth's natural systems to counteract climate change. The following are currently proposed techniques: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, weather modification etc.