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A ghetto is normally used for an impoverished area within a city or town. It was common for such areas to belong to a particular people group, such as [[Jews]]. The isolation usually experienced by such people can be applied externally or internally. The result can be difficulty in relationships between those in the ghetto and those outside.
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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 a sense that the ghetto is closed—outsiders are not welcome.
  
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It is also possible to consider some of the conservative Christian communities in the United States as ghettos in that they often struggle to adequately interact with the rest of the world and can have difficulties in travelling outside their country. Some groups go so far as to produce their own internet resources so as to ensure that their members are protected from such "evils" as foreign spellings, other opinions on their religion, or indeed criticism of their habit of attacking other countries.
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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." A "ghetto blaster" is  slang for a large and powerful stereo radio-DVD player.
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By extension "ghetto" also means any closed, underpaid sector of the labor force which is hard to escape.  
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Latest revision as of 21:34, July 12, 2016

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 a sense that the ghetto is closed—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." A "ghetto blaster" is slang for a large and powerful stereo radio-DVD player.

By extension "ghetto" also means any closed, underpaid sector of the labor force which is hard to escape.

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