What kind of ghetto are you

For some reason, "ghetto" is normally directed towards black individuals. However, it is believed and has been proven that other individuals of a different color can and have acted just as poorly. A section of a city in which a large population of a minority is confined to a small space, usually due to economic status.

Many residents of these areas are less financially stable than other areas. Of or pertaining to "the ghetto". Closed ghettos were closed off by walls, or by fences with barbed wire. During World War II , ghettos were city districts often enclosed in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and sometimes regional Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions.

Ghettos isolated Jewish communities by separating them both from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The Germans established at least 1, ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone.

Closed ghettos situated primarily in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union were closed off by walls, or by fences with barbed wire. The German authorities compelled Jews living in the surrounding areas to move into the closed ghetto, thus exacerbating the extremely crowded and unsanitary conditions.

Starvation, chronic shortages, severe winter weather, inadequate and unheated housing, and the absence of adequate municipal services led to repeated outbreaks of epidemics and to a high mortality rate. Most ghettos were of this type. Open ghettos had no walls or fences, but there were restrictions on entering and leaving. These existed in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union, as well as in Transnistria, that province of Ukraine occupied and administrated by Romanian authorities.

New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Slang : Often Disparaging and Offensive. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. In English, ghetto in its original meaning dates from the early 17th century. Words nearby ghetto Ghent , Gheorghiu , Gheorghiu-Dej , gherao , gherkin , ghetto , ghetto blaster , ghetto-fabulous , ghettoize , ghettos , Ghibelline.

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