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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-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.)




In 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/seg...




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