In its broadest sense, ghetto refers to any economically depressed and politically disenfranchised neighborhood in an urban center. Most often, the word is used to refer to a section of a city where the city's population of an oppressed minority is made to reside.
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| - In its broadest sense, ghetto refers to any economically depressed and politically disenfranchised neighborhood in an urban center. Most often, the word is used to refer to a section of a city where the city's population of an oppressed minority is made to reside.
- Ghetto is a term for the land where Jew used to live during the Dispora. Frequently Jews were legally compelled to live in Ghettoes or there were legal restrictions on where Jews could live. The term is probably derived from the Ghetto in Venice where Jews were formerly forced to live.
- The term ghetto historically meant the Jewish district of a European town, especially in Italy, before Napoleon freed the Jews from this confinement around 1800. The original Ghetto was the name given to the Jewish quarter of Venice (which still bears that name). By 1900 it came to mean the Jewish neighborhoods of New York City, and soon was applied to other ethnic neighborhoods in U.S. cities. There is an implication that a ghetto is closed and outsiders are not welcome. By extension "ghetto" also means any closed, underpaid sector of the labor force which is hard to escape.
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| - In its broadest sense, ghetto refers to any economically depressed and politically disenfranchised neighborhood in an urban center. Most often, the word is used to refer to a section of a city where the city's population of an oppressed minority is made to reside.
- The term ghetto historically meant the Jewish district of a European town, especially in Italy, before Napoleon freed the Jews from this confinement around 1800. The original Ghetto was the name given to the Jewish quarter of Venice (which still bears that name). By 1900 it came to mean the Jewish neighborhoods of New York City, and soon was applied to other ethnic neighborhoods in U.S. cities. There is an implication that a ghetto is closed and outsiders are not welcome. After 1950 the term changed meaning to refer to big city neighborhoods in the U.S. that were over 90% black. Typically they are poor and crime-ridden, so the term "ghetto" picked up these connotations. "Inner city" is a synonym. Thus Martin Luther King said, "In the ghettos of Chicago...the problems of poverty and despair are graphically illustrated.". By extension "ghetto" also means any closed, underpaid sector of the labor force which is hard to escape.
- Ghetto is a term for the land where Jew used to live during the Dispora. Frequently Jews were legally compelled to live in Ghettoes or there were legal restrictions on where Jews could live. The term is probably derived from the Ghetto in Venice where Jews were formerly forced to live.
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