What does 'ghetto' mean to you internationally?

Question

-doesn't have to be a definition you learn from school or dictionary.
-it's what comes to your mind about 'ghetto'

Answer 1

Two distinct definitions in America to me:
Primarily, an area of lower income, racial segregated people living together in a high crime environment.

Secondarily, a culturally segregated group of people who live in an area together BECAUSE of their culture, family, food needs and these "ghettos" are not necessary poor and unemployed people, but groups maintaining their ethnicity even after living generations in the USA. (examples, but not conclusive: Italian, Greek, Korean,Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Chinese, Russian, etc.)

Answer 2

Traditionally it was the Jewish quarter in a European city, the word is Italian. It has been extended to mean any area of a city with a concentration of a particular group often but not necessarily in poverty. Although the word is usually pejorative it can be used ironically. Sydney, for instance, is said to have a gay ghetto.

Answer 3

World: any place where a single culture is concentrated and in poverty.

U.S.: generally referring to a black neighborhood or something from hip-hop culture.

I have heard, for instance, of the Polish ghettos in WWII, but in the U.S., I never hear poor whites, hispanics or asians referred to as living in the ghetto.

Answer 4

A slum is a word that comes to mind.
Meaning buildings altogether, overcrowding, misery, hardship. How the people are without money is up to the individuals to whether they fall into a life of crime, do not look after themselves..etc, be they any race.

Answer 5

Ghetto: impoverished, poverty, the poorest of the poor.
Ghetto: slang, pop-culuture. poor doing the best they can and looking and playing the part of something one is not. God bless****

Answer 6

The sad scene in "Schindler's List," when the Jews were rounded up.

Just what pops into my head.

Answer 7

dangerous areas of poverty i guess