Ghetto vs Asylum - What's the difference?
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An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law.
* 2009 , Barbara Engelking-Boni, Jacek Leociak, The Warsaw ghetto: a guide to the perished city (ISBN 0300112343), page 25:
* 2010 , Mike Lindner, Leaving Terror Behind: A Boy's Journey to Painting Over the Past (ISBN 1615664149), page 49:
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An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity or race.
* 1998 , Steven J. L. Taylor, Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: The Influence of Local Leaders (ISBN 0791439194), page 15:
* 1998 , Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (ISBN 0226342441), page 253:
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An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
* 2006 , Gay tourism: culture and context (Gordon Waitt, Kevin Markwell, ISBN 0789016036), page 201:
* 2007 , Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782), page 190:
* 2001 , Justin Taylor, ''The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (ISBN 0061881821), page 64:
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Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
(slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
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(US, informal) Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
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Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
* 1964 , James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow , page 274:
* 2001 , Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties (ISBN 0060935502), page 526:
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A place of safety.
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
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As nouns the difference between ghetto and asylum
is that ghetto is 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 while asylum is a place of safety.As an adjective ghetto
is of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.As a verb ghetto
is to confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.ghetto
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Noun
- 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.
- 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,
Derived terms
* ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * ghettoise, ghettoizeAdjective
(en adjective)- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
- I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
Derived terms
* nonghettoVerb
(es)- This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
- All African states practised racist policies. In the 1950s and 1960s, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia expelled more than a quarter of a million Jews and ghettoed the few thousand who remained. In the 1960s the United Republic of Tanzania expelled its Arabs or deprived them of equal rights.
asylum
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Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum , it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.