What exactly is a "ghetto" neighborhood and what is it like?

Answer 1

Black?? Are you kidding me? ANY poor racial group can live in a ghetto. Please see definition below:

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.

Answer 2

What Is A Ghetto

Answer 3

A ghetto is simply a area were minorities are the majority. Over the years they just have been steroetyped as poor and dangerous.

Answer 4

In the USA, "ghetto" usually refers to a poor, predominately black area with a large amount of crime and sociopathy (drug use, drug dealing, illegitimate births, bad schools). "Ghetto" also implies an older, poorly-maintained housing stock, dirty streets, and grafitti everywhere.

Unfortunately, some white people use the term "ghetto" to refer to any predominately black neighborhood, regardless of what it is actually like.

Answer 5

any color can live in the ghetto . **** i live their. Most of the most fmous dancers and singers come from the ghetto. I aint gonna lie, we got foot work. living in the ghetto is like a big family that dont play no games

Answer 6

The term derived from neighborhoods that Jewish people were forced into and confined to by Nazis. Such neighborhoods if ethnic groups lived there came to be considered low-class, dirty and to be avoided.

Answer 7

A ghetto is where the poor black families live and deal drugs. Another good word would be the projects or the hood.

Answer 8

You know you are entering a ghetto but the sudden increase of simians, bordered up buildings, idol lauts hanging out on the street instead of looking for work. Make sure to lock your doors and roll up the windows.

In an ideal world there would be a sign on the outskirts saying "WARNING! *****'s ahead" is a picture of a gun.

Answer 9

poor

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