Vandana Magal Show: Slang and Cultural Expressions
/| Approx. time | Expression | Explanation |
| 0:45 | millennia | thousands of years |
| 1:35 | Times of India | http://bit.ly/1ieIYsz |
| 1:44 | Economic Times | http://bit.ly/1hRLq5A |
| 1:58 | doctoral program | PhD studies |
| 2:05 | trajectory | the arc or pathway of a flying object |
| 2:20 | freelance writer | independent person writing for more than one publication |
| 2:30 | Toledo Blade | http://bit.ly/1j69D7g |
| 2:45 | “From Somewhere Else: Transnational Communities and Media” | http://bit.ly/1rIDA1H |
| 2:50 | transnational | moving freely across national boundaries |
| 2:58 | heritage communities | cultural locations where people originate |
| 3:25 | Indo-American | Americans of (South Asian) Indian ancestry |
| 3:30 | hyphenated identity | belonging to two national cultures, e.g., Bosnian-American |
| 4:00 | sociological | about social issues, especially related to cultural and environmental aspects (not psychological or personal ones) |
| 4:10 | illuminates | shines light on, illustrates, shows |
| 4:13 | transcended | went beyond the usual range or limits |
| 5:25 | less mobility | not moving as much |
| 5:40 | angle to this | way of viewing this |
| 7:02 | instant messaging subscription service for smartphones | |
| 7:47 | diasporic consciousness | way of thinking for people who are migrated/scattered from their original homeland |
| 8:20 | advent | arrival |
| 8:36 | tedious | long, slow, tiresome |
| 8:50 | hyperactivity | having more action than is usual or desirable |
| 9:18 | all walks of life | all kinds of occupations and backgrounds |
| 9:42 | relegated to memory | limited to what we remember from the past |
| 10:00 | less abrupt | not changing so suddenly |
| 10:45 | hyphenation | joining two words together, e.g., Chinese-American |
| 10:53 | media-centric | defined from the media’s point of view |
| 12:05 | submerse yourself 100% | join something totally (without looking for other options) |
| 12:14 | hybrid identity | having two or more ways of seeing oneself |
| 12:30 | Sicilians | people from the Italian island of Sicily |
| 12:45 | salad bowl | mixing together many vegetables and allowing them to keep their original identity within the new mixture |
| 12:55 | intact | together, without coming separated |
| 13:48 | parallels | comparisons of similarity |
| 14:25 | solitude | aloneness |
| 15:55 | give voice to | allow someone to speak, allow someone to represent him/herself |
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