| Approx. time |
Expression |
Explanation |
| 0:20 |
squishy |
being soft, yielding, not form or fixed |
| 0:50 |
How his family came to the United States |
The unusual story of pursuing |
| 1:34 |
The origin of "Beniflah" |
What Jake's last name means |
| 2:19 |
the Inquisition |
The church court of the Inquisition, as established in Spain in the late fifteenth century
|
| 2:24 |
Sephardic |
Spanish Jews (who fled Spain to Morocco)
|
| 3:01 |
acculturative stress
|
A reduction in health status of individuals who are undergoing acculturation, coming into a new culture
|
| 3:36 |
put 2 and 2 together |
to understand something by using the information you already have
|
| 4:16 |
price disparity |
where goods have higher costs in a foreign market than in the domestic market due to transportation and exporting costs
|
| 4:37 |
DMV |
department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a state-level government agency that administers vehicle registration and driver licensing |
| 4:52 |
from ground zero |
the central point in an area of fast change or intense activity
|
| 6:12 |
idioms |
a groupd of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of individual words |
| 8:18 |
Creating the Center for Multicultrual Science |
The mission for the center
|
| 8:40 |
dissertation chair |
A champion of the doctoral student's cause |
| 9:20 |
think tank |
a body of experts providing advice and ideas on specific political or economic problems
|
| 9:44
|
depict accurately |
representation in image form |
| 9:59
|
research paradigm |
a "worldview" or set of assumptions about how things work |
| 10:34
|
connecting the dots |
a form of puzzle containing a sequence of events or numbered dots |
| 10:51
|
academia is snooty |
showing disapproval or contempt toward others, especially those considered to belong to a lower social class |
| 11:10
|
Looking into research findings |
the vision of challenging the paradigm |
| 11:23
|
challenging the paradigm |
example, pattern, especially an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype. |
| 13:17
|
oversimplifications |
simplify something so much that a distorted impression |
| 14:49
|
Touching Story |
Jake's father and his culture |
| 15:08
|
pancreatic cancer |
a disease in which cancerous cells form in the tissues of the pancreas |
