ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people.

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A ghetto is a section of a city where members of a minority group live in concentrated numbers, typically due to political, social, legal, religious, environmental, or economic pressures rather than by free choice. These areas are often characterized by higher levels of poverty than other parts of the city, and similar segregated communities have existed throughout history and across the globe under various names and circumstances.

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Etymology and name
Jewish ghettos
Nazi-occupied Europe
Roma ghettos
In Denmark
In France
In the United Kingdom
In Northern Ireland
Ghettos in the United States
Early ghettos
Black or African-American ghettos
Effect of World War II on development
Theories on the development of Black ghettos
Race-based theories
Class-based theories
Alternative theory
U.S. characterizations of "ghetto"
Internal characterizations
Modern usage and reinterpretations of "ghetto"
Ghettos elsewhere
Shanghai ghetto
In popular culture
Film
Music
See also
References
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thumb|The main square of what was once the Venetian Ghetto in Italy (2013)|324x324pxThe term was originally used for the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, as early as 1516, to describe the part of the city where Jewish people were restricted to live and thus segregated from other people. However, other early societies may have formed their own versions of the same structure; words resembling ghetto in meaning appear in Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Germanic, Polish, Corsican, Old French, and Latin. During the Holocaust, more than 1,000 Nazi ghettos were established to hold the Jewish populations of Europe, with the goal of exploiting and killing European Jews as part of the Final Solution of Nazi Germany.