hey, what's the difference in being "ghetto" and bein "white trash"...?

Question

i know one is suppose to be blacks & the other is suppose to be for whites...but generally aint they the same....

Answer 1

Ghetto people are up north and out west, generally white trash is reserved for us southerners, thanks to Jerry Springers retarded show

Answer 2

Hi Sweetie! I don't know, but a lady called me "white trash ho" once when I beat her into a parking spot once! I laughed at her & a gentleman in the back seat said he was going to come out & knife me! (I wasn't too scared because I live in MN)

I think ghetto might be more about the distorted use of the English language & white trash is white people who live in poverty & either can't or won't better themselves.

Answer 3

A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily. The word was originally used to refer to the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, where Jews were required to live. The corresponding German term was Judengasse. In Moroccan Arabic, ghettos were called mellah. The term came into widespread use during World War II to refer to Nazi ghettos.

The term is now commonly used to refer to any poverty-stricken urban area. In the U.S., "rural ghetto" is used to describe mobile home parks, farm labor housing tracts, and Indian reservations. 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 (e.g. gay ghetto, student ghetto) or for non-geographic categories (e.g. "sci fi ghetto"). [1]


White trash is a racial slur with a classist component targeted at white people and connoting low social status, poor prospects (i.e., downward mobility), or lack of education. To call someone white trash is to accuse a white person of being economically, educationally and culturally bankrupt. Though the term is commonly used to refer to a particular stereotype of the South of the United States, it did not actually arise in there, but rather among African Americans in urban Baltimore, Maryland. Free and enslaved blacks used the term to disparage poor whites, especially Irish immigrants and other semiskilled workers (Wray 2007).

Answer 4

I think of ghetto people as being in urban areas, big cities. Whereas most of the white trash I know live in rural areas or small towns. It's another term for hicks or hillbillies here.

Answer 5

I thought ghetto was a place while white trash can be found just about anywhere.

Answer 6

Ghetto's are city based and white trash is trailer courts,at least in our area it is that way...but yah,I think its basically the same in essence.

Answer 7

yea
white trash is just ghetto out in the sticks

Answer 8

"Ghetto" can be good! There are those who are "ghetto-licious" and "ghetto fabulous."

There is nothing fabulous about being white trash.

Answer 9

I the ghetto you smoke chronic..in the trailer park you use cystal meth

Answer 10

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