Meaning of Ghetto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
2. An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
3. An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
4. An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
   derogatory, figuratively, sometimes

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Examples

“The Venetian ghetto, according to Sennett, was to provide protection from the unclean bodies of the Jews and their sullying touch. The Roman ghetto, on the other hand, was planned as an area for mission. It was supposed to collect the Jews in one place, so that it would be easier to convert them.”

“[…] concentrating the Jewish community into ghettoes. The Germans not only started the ghettoes, but they had also opened a concentration camp […]”

“Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe.”

“Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes.”

“By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto.”

“Counterhegemonic spaces imagined as bounded territories ensure that heteronormativity is fixed beyond the borders of the gay ghetto. The rural and suburban lives of lesbian and gay people are made invisible and signified as inauthentic.”

“The student ghetto, southwest of the centre, is inside the triangle formed by [three streets] and is full of open-air bars, internet cafés, fast-food shops — and students.”

“They're back in the student ghetto now, on oak-shaded streets lined with run-down houses filled with nonnuclear families of all varieties and kinds. Safe now from the tractor beams of the horrible good Christians, […]”

“Abraham Merritt wrote for the pulps and never in his lifetime achieved critical success. Yet he had a devoted following in the science fiction ghetto who admired the clarity of his style and his power to evoke moods.”

“Invent is undoubtedly the wrong word, but the push from government was crucial in getting the Internet out of its academic ghetto.”

“2016 January 10, Quentin Tarantino, 73rd Golden Globe Awards Ennio Morricone... is my favourite composer - and when I say favourite composer, I don't mean movie composer - that ghetto. I'm talking about Mozart, I'm talking about Beethoven, I'm talking about Schubert. That's who I'm talking about.”

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