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Ghetto vs Asylum - What's the difference?

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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

  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 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:
  • Charlestown would also become one of Boston's three large Irish ghettoes .
  • * 1998 , Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (ISBN 0226342441), page 253:
  • By 1960 the growth and development of Chicago's black areas of residence confirmed the existence of the city's second ghetto .
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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:
  • 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.
  • * 2007 , Romania & Moldova (Robert Reid, Leif Pettersen, ISBN 1741044782), page 190:
  • 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.
  • * 2001 , Justin Taylor, ''The Gospel of Anarchy: A Novel (ISBN 0061881821), page 64:
  • 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,
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  • Derived terms

    * ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * ghettoise, ghettoize

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
  • (slang, informal) Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
  • 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!
  • * {{quote-book, title=Army Life: The First Four Months in My First Duty Station, page 15,
  • books.google.com/books?isbn=0595375987, author=Ramon Carrasco, year=2005, passage=I had not used very many minutes on my phone. Here we pay for our minutes prior to using them, and it gets expensive. I did not want her using up all my minutes. That was very ghetto and disrespectful.}}
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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.
  • Derived terms

    * nonghetto

    Verb

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  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
  • * 1964 , James A. Atkins, The age of Jim Crow , page 274:
  • This is, in brief, a part of the story of the ghettoing of a large segment of Denver's Negro population.
  • * 2001 , Paul Johnson, Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties (ISBN 0060935502), page 526:
  • 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.
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  • asylum

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.

    Synonyms

    * sanctuary * shelter

    Derived terms

    * insane asylum * mental asylum * orphan asylum * asylum seeker

    See also

    * refugee ----