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That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes: > 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live http://www.merriam-we
by mbrubeck 12y ago
That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes:
> 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto
(Note: I'm not calling the article's author racist, just noting that the above claim about Webster is factually mistaken.)
- integraton 12y agoIn the US for the past many decades the word "ghetto" has referred to qualities associated with poor urban american neighborhoods, specifically black neighborhoods, and only has a historical connection to jewish ghettos. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/segregated-from-its-history-how-ghetto-lost-its-meaning http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/seg...