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Ah thank you. Is it synonymous with a Ghetto?

• keiferski 7y ago
  They are almost equivalent in everyday use, but in actual meaning, they are different. "The projects" strictly refers to the building developments themselves, but is often used informally to refer to a poor neighborhood in general. "The Ghetto" refers to a neighborhood of an urban area and not a particular building or group of buildings. "The projects" are often in the ghetto but not necessarily. Saying "I grew up in the ghetto" and "I grew up in the projects" are more-or-less equivalent. Both only refer to urban areas; there is no such thing as a rural ghetto.
  • TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
    Rural poverty is definitely poverty. The term rural ghetto can be used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto
    • keiferski 7y ago
      > Rural poverty is definitely poverty. I didn't say that rural poverty isn't poverty. I'm simply saying that the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.
      • TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
        ”there is no such thing as a rural ghetto.” ”the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.” These are not the same thing.
• itronitron 7y ago
  not really, a ghetto is a larger residential area that may or may not include 'projects' housing
• amalcon 7y ago
  Ghetto technically refers to a neighborhood into which a racial minority tends to be segregated. It comes from Jewish ghettos enforced legally in Europe in the 16th century, but it is also used for neighborhoods where minorities live for other reasons (such as social or economic pressure). Project refers either to public housing, or more generally any group of buildings where economically disadvantaged people tend to be segregated. Because these very frequently overlap in the US, people often use them interchangeably.