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“A ghetto (Italian pronunciation: [ɡetˈto]) is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.[1]The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated but has since been applied in various contexts. Ghettos in many cities have been nicknamed "the hood", colloquial slang for neighborhood.[2]”


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto

Etymology


 * Largely variable: primarily of Venetian background, but has Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, Italian, Germanic, Old French, and Latin translations/extensions/roots.

United Kingdom


 * Northern Ireland
 * Cross-cutting cleavages: separation for ethnic, religious, and political reasons
 * Irish Nationalist-Republicans (Irish/Catholic) vs. Unionist-Loyalist (British/Protestant)
 * Ghettos appeared as a result of Irish War of Independence; people separated themselves and found communities surrounded by those like them.
 * “Peace lines” were established to keep the peace.
 * Great Britain
 * Ethnic enclaves; example: Southall Broadway - called a ghetto, but actually very diverse
 * Certain wards and boroughs in Great Britain have “minority majority” populations that are considered ghettos

Denmark


 * Uses “ghetto” to identify specific residencies
 * Specific criteria: “The legal designation is applied to areas based on the residents' income levels, employment status, education levels, criminal convictions and 'non-Western' ethnic background”
 * It’s a political thing that’s recognized: ‘ “In his New Year Speech for 2018, the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen announced his government's intention to "end the existence of parallel societies and ghettos by 2030". ‘

France


 * Banlieue: a suburb of a large city; divided into separate parts, aren’t connected to the city, involves a number of different classes. It increasingly involves immigrants.

Jewish Ghettos


 * Europe
 * Jewish quarter: traditionally inhabited by Jews in the diaspora; Jews were forced into them by outside authorities - Jews were viewed as aliens.
 * Some Jewish quarters were wealthier than others, and they all had their own methods for justice.
 * Nazi-occupied Europe
 * Ghettos were created by Nazis to control Jews and Romani people, and many were converted into concentration camps during the Holocaust.
 * Morocco
 * Mellah: “a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto”
 * Some mellahs were positioned near palaces or the officials’ residences to protect them from riots while rural ones were separate from the villages.
 * Israel
 * Ghetto in Tel Aviv for impoverished Jews according to Jewish writer Robert Gessner
 * Shanghai ghetto
 * Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai and were placed into a ghetto after the issuing of the Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless Refugees post-exodus from Europe during WWII.
 * Palestine
 * Debated about the relevance/significance of the Gaza Ghetto; film (1984)

United States


 * Historically involved with immigrants: Irish, German, Italian, Poles - often more segregated than African-Americans in the early 20th century
 * Primarily in New York
 * Relocated to suburbs after WWII
 * Transitioned to Puerto Rican and Jewish followings during the 50s
 * Many Russian and Ukrainian immigrants
 * Little Italys all over the country
 * Poles in Michigan and Pennsylvania
 * Great Depression “ghettos” made in parking lots
 * African-American ghettos were a huge deal...lots of them still exist. LOTS of info here.
 * “A commonly used definition of a ghetto is a community distinguished by a homogeneous race or ethnicity”
 * Poverty was a common theme when addressing “ghettos.”
 * Constrained social opportunities and inequality
 * Main factors of the development of contemporary ghettos: industrial relocation and movement towards suburban housing (middle and upper class)
 * Lots of social issues surrounding African-Americans,  “racial ghettos”, and systems designed to keep them there
 * Use of “ghetto” as an adjective: inner city/black culture or something shabby/of low quality
 * Gay ghetto
 * Area made up mostly of LGBT people
 * Gay village: housing, bars, clubs, restaurants, boutiques, and stores.

Talk Page Notes


 * “Intellectually dishonest” - picture of black guys could’ve been anywhere
 * “POV”: reference is misconstrued
 * Etymology of “Ghetto”
 * Not from Italian “getto, gettare”; from the Latin “ghetta” meaning “slags”
 * Could be from the musical term “larghetto” - playing classical movements at a slower place; aristocracy may have used it to describe the lives of the lower class
 * Etymology of “hood”: possibly just short for “hood”
 * The Jewish Community and the Word “Ghetto”: ultimately a racial slur
 * Figurative Use of the Word “Ghetto”: discrepancies about when/if it can be used figuratively
 * Reasoning behind black ghettos flourishing needs to be clarified: they thrived (for the most part) because prominent black artists lived there
 * Reasoning #2: welfare checks in relation to births out of wedlock
 * “Something blacks have not been able to do” - a big yikes: find the source of the conjecture, make it sound less like an opinion in relation to how it’s inserted in the article, and cite it.
 * Discrepancies about where the actual first ghetto was found/made
 * Consider removing the graffiti info about West London
 * Jewish slums: got to the US before the Irish (possibly?); “ghettos” is derogatory and offensive when speaking of Jews
 * Little/No mention of Hispanic “barrios”
 * Disputed necessity for “NPOV” tag: disputes about whether to use “black” or “African-American”
 * “Ghettos survive  by liberalism, not racism”
 * “Ghetto music”
 * “Early ghettos”
 * “Hooverville” - should it be added?
 * Post-WW2 France
 * Chinatowns
 * Gang affiliation
 * Change layout based on information; level out the amount of information per topic if possible and consider further separating the topics with clear headings
 * External links repeatedly modified