Graduation season may be over, but netizens the world over are still watching one East Bay student's rousing farewell address.

A video of Angad Singh Padda's talk, called "A Sikh's Graduation Speech to Unite the World," was posted on May 17. It has since gone viral, racking up almost a quarter of a million views on YouTube. A subtitled version by Upworthy has been shared more than 1.8 million times.

In his speech – which he gave extemporaneously – Padda implores his fellow graduates to create a world without prejudice.

"Whenever there's a kid in Oakland who can't afford school, that's a problem," he said. "Whenever climate change wipes out a species, that's a problem. Whenever a Muslim woman gets bullied because of her hijab, or a Jewish man because of his yarmulke, or a Sikh man because of his turban, that is a problem."

Padda, a decorated 23-year-old scholar, graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business May 13. In his speech, he described how he had lost two friends to drug abuse in his home state of Punjab, India. That experience, he said, made him want to become as successful as possible, so that he might someday return to Punjab and help solve its drug problem.

He also called on his classmates to create a world with "no walls or borders," where "nobody would call (any) other person 'bad hombres.'"

"Our dream is to create a world in which we are all one," he said.

After being selected to give the Class of 2017's graduation speech by a group of his peers, Padda asked more than 70 other students what mattered most to them. In the end, though, he decided to give the speech off-the-cuff, according to a Haas press release.

Padda opened his talk by sitting cross-legged on the stage and playing a brief piece on small Indian drums called Tabla. As he spoke, he strode across the stage, his sleeves rolled up and a bright gold turban on his head. (In one online profile, Padda claims to have 56 differently-colored turbans.)

Padda now works as a banker for J.P. Morgan, but closed his speech by emphasizing that making a profit was not his priority.

"I am not going to say, 'Let's go out there and earn six figures,'" he said. "I am going to say, 'Let's go out there and fix six of the world's biggest problems.'"