define ghetto ...?

Question

can anybody give me an accurate description / definition of "ghetto" ?

im jus throwin dis one out there >>>

Answer 1

1-Heating up your house with ur oven
2-If ur phone's in your babys name
3-u wearin the same outfit to church that u were wearin to the club last night..."CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!"
4-If u ask your kid for we*d when ur stash is exhausted
5-u wear house shoes to the grocery store
6-your 19 and u just met ur father
7-Theres REUSABLE BACON GREASE IN A MAXWELL HOUSE CAN IN THE CENTER OF THE BURNERS ON YOUR STOVE.
8-the batteries in your remote are held in with a piece of duct tape
9-something smells horrible in the fridge and all u do is change the box of arm and hammer baking soda
10-ur drinking glasses used to be jelly jars
11-u use black eyeliner to line ur lips
12-u got angry when the government stopped the cheese program
13-YOU ADD "ED" OR "T" TO THE END OF A WORD THAT'S ALREADY IN THE PAST TENSE (E.G., TOOKED, LIGHT-SKINNEDED, KILT, RUINT).
14-u clean ur ears with a bobby pin,ink pen cap,or key
15-the roaches come out only when company comes.........Oh No I didnt!!!!

Answer 2

I think of ghetto as an adjective instead of a noun. Like someone acts ghetto instead of lives in the ghetto. I think of ghetto like this: Gold Teeth (platinum or jeweled), Large jerseys or white T's, The inability to write in correct English, Rims and tires worth more than the car, receiving a welfare check when you sell $1000 worth of dope in a week, more than one babies momma/ daddy, Big Jeweled watched (especially fake ones), Synthetic Hair, Doctors appointments at the health clinic, Applebee's is fine dining (also just trashy), Ribs on Thanksgiving, Dropping out of school for street cred, Dreams of music or sports only, Etc. These are not racial divisions, I know a lot of different kinds of people that fit this category.

Answer 3

Pronunciation: 'ge-(")tO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural ghettos also ghettoes
Etymology: Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live, literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr to cast, from Latin jactare to throw -- more at JET
1 : a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2 : a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
3 a : an isolated group b : a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity

Answer 4

I've had kids tell me something I did was "so ghetto". What was it? Uh, a soda can for a door prop? Yes, at school. The term has certainly changed somewhat over time to include many things. In this case, what I did wasn't very classy (it was ghetto, too, to put batteries in the freezer), but hey, you gotta do with what you have, true?

Answer 5

A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. The word historically referred specifically to the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, where Jews were required to live; it derives from the Venetian gheto (slag from Latin GLĬTTU[M] cfr. Italian ghetto (slag)), and referred to the area of the Cannaregio sestiere, the site selected for the Ghetto Nuovo where a foundry cooled the slag (campo gheto). It was later applied to neighborhoods in other cities where Jews were required to live. The corresponding German term was Judengasse; in Moroccan Arabic ghettos were called mellah.

The term now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area, though the news media created new terms like rural ghetto to describe mobile home parks, farm labor housing tracts and Indian reservations to indicate the poorest areas in the U.S. aren't inside a major city. In the United States, urban neighborhoods where Hispanic immigrants settled in the late 20th century barrios are said comparable to ghettos, because most immigrants form a culturally isolated enclave and may choose to remain there or associate with their own group.

"Ghetto" is also used figuratively to indicate geographic areas with a concentration of any type of person, with or without poverty (e.g. gay ghetto) or for non-geographic categories (e.g. "sci fi ghetto" [1]). The term is also used to describe an item or an action as cheap or flimsy. some consider this misappropriation of language offensive[2].

Some people in the U.S. and Europe strongly dislike the term ghetto, believing to have racist, elitist and culturally insensitive overtones, and the mention of such a word to describe a working-class ethnic community is considered a generalization or an insult. Many social workers and community leaders suggest alternative words to describe these areas like Inner city and economically disadvantaged areas.

Answer 6

is where the people not liked by some elite of the society lives, the people that lives in the ghetto has lots of characteristics in common: religion, language, belives, etc

Answer 7

(lol) When the rims on your car cost more than the car itself
Saying things like Screet(Street) Scrawberry(strawberry)
Going out and buying an outfit to go partying and your lights are cut off.
Saying My Baby's Daddy
Gold Teeth
Your monthly bills consist of 150.00 This would pay rent lights gas water and everything is cut off.
Getting your name cut in your head
Women( having more than one hair do in a complete hair style
Your kids are name by cars that you can't afford
Your wearing clothes by designers and you can't pronounce their names.
Mother 18,grandmother 29,Great grandmother37(lol)
The list goes on
This is to funny

Answer 8

I have a house in the ghetto & one in the country,,,I think ghetto is the outskirt of the inner city.

Answer 9

ghet‧to [GET-oh]

1. a section of a city, esp. a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships.
2. (formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
3. a section predominantly inhabited by Jews.
4. any mode of living, working, etc., that results from stereotyping or biased treatment.

Answer 10

"A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination."

Also:
"A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion."