Since I was six years old, my maternal grandparents were very open with me about their struggles with mental health and how mental health issues have plagued the family for decades. One of their main philosophies was: taking care of one’s mental health is the most important thing you could ever do in this lifetime….

The course objectives in cross-cultural psychology has made me reexamine how I define culture, and how culture plays a significant role in human development and psychological research (Matsumoto & Juang, 2016).  Throughout my readings, I realized that psychological research is based around the concept of WEIRDOS: western, educated industrialized, rich, and democratic cultures: which does not…