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Sorry OP, but your defense of ghettos as voluntary enclaves is not accurate. Please check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghettos_in_Nazi-occupied_Europe http://e

• AndrewDucker 14y ago
  Absolutely: "The term was originally used in Venice derived from the word Borghetto, meaning Little Borgo, a cluster of homes and buildings often outside Italian city walls, to describe the area where Jews, tradespeople or agricultural workers were compelled to live."
• gpcz 14y ago
  As you said, the author was probably mixing up ghettos (which are by definition involuntary) with the concept of an ethnic enclave ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_enclave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_enclave ). It's easy to do because many ethnic enclaves were historically ghettos, but the involuntary factor was removed and the region developed a unique culture that remains.
  • lrem 14y ago
    To make it even more confusing, I've heard that at least some ghettos in German-occupied Poland were ethnic enclaves before the war. OTOH, never cared to find actual sources to support/disprove this claim.