What is your definition of GHETTO???!!! Is it the same as LOW CLASS???

Answer 1

Ghetto = no education, low if none moral values, drugs, crime, complex, poverty, etc
Low class= could still have some education, moral values, be hard worker but the main problem with low class in general is lack of money.
Class is an attitude of elegance.

Answer 2

The definition of ghetto holds an entirely different meaning than "low class" as low class to me is people that don't take care about themselves or people around them or respect/cherish what little they do have and act like trash.

The ghetto is the way of life for certain individuals, it wasn't something they chose but something that was bestowed upon them, it's the only life they have and the true good people in those communities try to rise above it but always remember to look back and try to give back to where they came from and were raised and loved.

Answer 3

Not at all, although in the USA in the 1970s "blacksploitation" television led to this misconception. TV shows like Good Times showed "The Ghetto" as the area of the city where poor blacks lived.

A "ghetto" is a neighborhood where "different" people live and identify themselves. In the USA typical ghettos include racial/nationalistic (Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Havana), social ("the wrong side of the tracks" for poor people or "up on the hill" for rich), religious (Jewish ghetto) and gay ghettos.

You can say "birds of a feather flock together" or you can argue that people are forced to live places for economic reasons, either way these areas where people live in groups are correctly called "Ghettos".

The Wikipedia article has a lot of descriptions of ghettos inside and outside the USA.

Answer 4

no... it not the same, in my opinion. not everyone that lives in or comes from the "ghetto" is low class. You have to remember that just because you were born into a certain type of lifestyle or habit does not mean that when you grow up you will be "ghetto" or "low class" some people over come that hardship and better themselves. I do not define people for what part of town they come from. That is a really sad thing to do.

Answer 5

Ghetto is not the same as low class......Now it depends on how you define it.....because many times just because you live in the ghetto you are defined as lowered class...however that does not mean that you are ghetto yourself....you can live in the ghetto and in a lower class place but not be a ghetto person...

Answer 6

Low class is too general to be an exact equivalent to Ghetto. Ghetto implies low class of an urban variety. You wouldn't say a low class redneck was ghetto would you?

Answer 7

From the Ghetto?? one thing making it out another. Low Class, will most likely not change. Depends on what 1 chooses to do w/it

Answer 8

i would not say low class...
A ghetto is were the population of the places changes a lot. And is filled with people who do not know any better way of living. You see babies taking care of babies. e.g. A six year old watching 2 year olds in the thick of the city.

Answer 9

Ghetto, as an adjective, is worse than low class. You can't get much lower or crasser than ghetto.
Low class is getting kicked out of the trailer park. Ghetto is getting kicked out of your cardboard box on the street corner by the cockroaches.

Answer 10

Ghetto in my eyes is a huge family that looks out for everybody living in that area. A tight well knit family , a place where there is NO judging. I don't view it as poverty or a lower class. If anything it is a higher class because everybody looks out for each other.we can all learn something from the Ghetto!


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 came into popular, world-wide use during World War 2, in reference to Nazi ghettos ( see below ).

The term now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. In the U.S. the news media created terms like rural ghetto to describe mobile home parks, farm labor housing tracts and Indian reservations to indicate that the poorest areas in the U.S. aren't within major cities. In the United States, urban neighborhoods where Hispanic immigrants settled in the late 20th century (called barrios) are said to be 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 use of language to be an offensive misapplication[2].

Some people in the U.S. and Europe strongly dislike the term ghetto, believing it 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 economically disadvantaged areas as the location of the areas are often isolated from its outer worlds.