Jugaad
Term in India for trucks fabricated from scrap and wood; also used to denote resourcefulness.
View ArticleNever-Betters, Better-Nevers and Ever-Wasers
Adam Gopnik's categorisation of people's views on the impact of new technology.
View ArticleStresscalation
The contagiousness of stress. (Originally, the ways in which people increase their own levels of stress.)
View ArticleWestoxification & Modern Toxicity
Terms used in India to characterise the adoption of the material trappings of Western life without also embracing Western values of equality.
View ArticleEconomism and Economites
The theory that people's lives are principally focused on "production, exchange, and consumption."
View ArticleThe Anti-Dowry
The burden of student debt which delays graduates from buying property, founding businesses, or starting families.
View ArticleWet Houses
Residential centres for chronic alcoholics for whom sobriety is not expected.
View ArticleABCD
American Based Confused Desi - an updating of the term "American Born Confused Desi," used to describe Indians in America debating whether to return to their homeland.
View ArticleGeração à Rasca
Portugal's disaffected youth - the "generation in trouble" or "desperate generation."
View ArticleSlutWalk
Demonstration protesting the idea that "provocatively" dressed women are to blame for sexual assaults.
View ArticleHendricks Syndrome
(Male) enthusiasm for television's portrayal of submissive women - such as the glamorous secretary in "Mad Men," Joan Holloway, played by Christina Hendricks.
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