Talk:Ghetto

message: This ia informative 
And help the world would kNow about the facts 
It needs to be productive even more  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.168.204.89 (talk) 07:30, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Informative

message: look at the photo of two black guys about one-third down the page. That pic could have been anywhere in the US-- replaced by whites, Hispanics, Jews, Asians, NAmericans, Pacifics,
or Anybody Else. Many US cities looked like that in 1970s. CorvetteZ51 (talk) 10:42, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article is Intellectually dishonest 

message: What is the etymology of the slang term "hood" for ghetto? Jimw338 (talk) 17:22, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I always assumed it was short for "neighborhood". Willondon (talk) 20:28, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology of "hood"

message: A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background live as a group in seclusion, voluntarily or involuntarily...
"Ghetto" is also used figuratively to indicate geographic areas with a concentration of any type of person (e.g. gay ghetto, student ghetto) or for non-geographic categories
You don't mention that the word "ghetto" has an extremely negative connotation in the Jewish community today, and although the word ghetto can be used to describe almost any grouping of people, referring to a predominantly Jewish neighborhood where the residents live by choice as a "ghetto" is a racial slur. I'd add a sentence after the last one I quoted saying that for historical reasons referring to Jewish neighborhoods as "ghettos" is highly offensive.
Some take offense at the current causal use of the word "ghetto" because they feel it is downplays how ghetto's were used as an instrument of genocide during the holocaust.  For that reason using the word causally and/or in highly formal context is politically incorrect and potentially offensive.
Some Links:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm
Why the hell does holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/ trigger you spam filter?
as i understand the ghetto is acording to jewish law where jew should live and want to live, they live in ghettos as the did since the begining of talmudic law and perhaps before. jews are following talmudic law when they live in ghettos. in bablon they lived in ghettos out of personal choice and safty and not due to being forced by non-jewish peoples.  Using the word ghetto in this context is antisemitic.  Saying that the Jews like to live near each other and near Synagogues is one thing, but saying "Jews should want to live in the ghettos" is something else all together.  This statement is making excuses for the Holocaust.  This quote is a perfect example of how referring to Jewish neighborhoods as "ghettos" is a racial slur.
--Absolute Relativity 08:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Jewish community and the Word "Ghetto"

message: Ghetto is also used figuratively, and for areas that are anything but poverty struck (cf usage in Speculative fiction, Gay ghetto). Any reason not to indicate this in the first paragraph? 
E.g. The term ghetto is also used in a more figurative way to indicate areas and ideas that are excluded from the mainstream, such as Gay ghetto, or Sci-fi ghetto (see speculative fiction). If this seems to be denigrating the real ghettos, could add: Such usage may actually make some people more comfortable with the word, by distancing it from real, current, deprivation. Notinasnaid 09:12, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figurative use 

message: Because African-Americans of all economic levels had to live in these neighborhoods, such as Bronzeville in Chicago and Harlem in New York City, they often became known as vibrant cultural centers
the article needs clarification to indicate that black ghettos, became vibrant cultural centers because great artists lived there ( Nina Simone <3, John Lee Hooker -- boom, boom, boom --, Proffesor Longhair -- gumbo anyone? -- three artists that come most easily in mind) and not because a bunch of black people where stuck living there... Come on, it's like saying "Ghettos produce artists". Not NPOV. The article needs to reflect on the dates that this cultural flurishment happened.
[TODO] 'pedia "Harlem", "Detroit", "New Orleans", check out the dates where their ghettos flurished and then set this article straight. (did/does the 'awleans have a ghetto? - i'm putting it on the list cuz some of my most favorite jazz artists come from there.) Project2501a 11:17, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's often said that great art is born out of suffering. So it isn't necessarily a coincidence that great artists live in the ghetto. Perhaps "ghettos produce artists" in the same way that other crowded, poverty stricken, areas have done (e.g. late 19th century Paris). (No I haven't read the original statements). Low property prices and tolerant neighbours can also influence whether people are able to gather in "cultural centres". Notinasnaid 12:01, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  point taken, but still, that doesn't negate the "minstrel" implication or the "go to the nigger hood, cuz they's gonna entaintain you" feeling of the wording. So, I changed the wording. let me know if you agree. thanks :) Project2501a 15:04, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text:  I added a whole section noting that african-american ghettos were often vibrant cultural centers Project2501a 15:28, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty reasoning, needs clarification 

message: (concerning [this reversion http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghetto&diff=19466622&oldid=19462838]): 
Waldinger argues that immigrant groups benefit by establishing nepotistic niches for themselves, and use niches for mutual help, something blacks have not been able to do. 
Whether or not each of us believes that blacks are "able" or "unable" or "willing" or "unwilling" to create and use niches, the point here is that Waldinger asserts they are unable to do so. The article isn't saying one way or another, it's just reporting what Waldinger said. FreplySpang (talk) 21:43, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
::Is that a quote by Waldinger?  If so, it should be in quotations, if not, the editor is simply projecting their beliefs onto a descriription of Waldinger's work.  Show where Waldinger specifically said "not been able."   "Not been able" is a racist statement. Furthermore, the following line in the paragraph: " In contrast, unskilled northern-born blacks, who hope to do something better than their parents, disdain these jobs, in hope of something better, and may often wind up working outside the legitimate economy altogether." further point out my opinion that this is a willing choice, not something which they are "unable" to do.  I believe that the quote above shows that Waldinger means unwilling.
:::I read Waldinger before I knew of wikipedia, or else I would have used a direct quotation from him.  I do recall that Waldinger writes more than one chapter about economic niching of Koreans, Indians, Jews, etc. as a contrast to African-Americans.  Waldinger writes about how blacks used to be prominent in the catering business, so I think that the wikipedia article correctly summarizes Waldinger's theory. Dinopup 01:37, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure how it could be interpreted as some sort of racialist "fundamentally unable" statement.  In context, the phrase "have not be able to do" means something like "have not managed to do", as in "I would like to visit China someday, but so far I have been unable to do so" (which does not imply that I am fundamentally incapable of visiting China). --Delirium 12:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "something blacks have not been able to do"  

message: The below paragraph has five claims that should be backed up by statistics:
:"Losing Ground has met with a broad chorus of liberal criticism. Losing Ground's opponents point out that [1] in the 1970s, when the real amounts of welfare checks decreased, out-of-wedlock births increased. Critics also point out that [2] illegitimacy rose just as much in low benefit states like Mississippi, where [3] work undoubtedly paid better than welfare, as [4] it did in high benefit states like Illinois and New York. Critics also say that Murry missed the fact that although the [5] percentage of blacks born out of wedlock increased in the 60s and 70s, the percentage of black women having babies out of wedlock decreased.
The claims should be footnoted or this paragraph should be removed or altered to clarify it is merely a POV and not fact.--CrazyTalk 18:33, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
::The information came from The Promised Land by N. Lemann.  I'll get a citation up within a few hours. Dinopup 19:32, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsubstantiated claim? 

message: It was organised in October 1939, according to deathcamps.org/occupation/piotrkow%20ghetto.html
Xx236 14:02, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piotrkow was the first ghetto 

message: The article blithely exclaims that the Irish were the first so-called "ethnic group" to form ghettoes in the United States of America, but that statement is a falsehood.  Jews preceded Irishmen by many decades.  Jews moved into older parts of cities, replacing the earlier (English) settlers.  Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, and other cities were places where Jews established the earliest ghettoes in North America.  71.240.82.223 04:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Slum]]s for [[Jew]]s

message: When a moderator places this stamp on an article, what purpose does it serve?  The blacks in the US section should be removed completely and locked from the user(s) that added it.  When newbies visit Wikipedia, they still read these biased articles and believe all its contents despite that dumb "neutrality of this article...".  Find other methods to keep Wikipedia neither left or right.
Panda
:The NPOV tag is placed to call attention to the presence of bias presenting itself as fact. To me, it's a heads-up that I should be skeptical. I can't speak for others, but it does work, at least for me. The specific tag in question was placed incorrectly (in the middle of an article, in the middle of a sentence even), but I've fixed that. There needs to be some explanation as to why it was placed there, however. I agree that a NPOV tag placed without an explanation on the talk page is practically useless.(missed explanation above) Regardless, the best method "to keep Wikipedia neither left or right" is to be bold and make the changes needed, making sure to explain why. -kotra 02:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "neutrality of this article is disputed" ''total BS'' 

message: I am suprised such a category does not exist yet?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Ghettos]]

message: im sure racism caused ghettos to form in america. today, racism we know it has declined when colleges have lowered entrance exam standards for black students and job hiring practices made it easy for blacks to get work. then most white peeple i observe dont like to say 'ghetto' or dont wanna talk bout issues like this, cuz the p-c agenda will call them racists or bigots. im one of the 'evil conservative' types, but i always not care much on what race or color a person is. ghettos survive today by race baitin politics, the rap hip hop culture glamorizes failure & poverty, when these rap singers in contracts made 'bling bling' leave the ghetto. what kind of world we have any one can sing poorly & write songs full of cursing, drug use & objectifies women? it promotes a negative sense of self & young black kids listen to it thinking they are low lifes? im offended, are you? ghettos are here not by legal restricted home tracts, its been illegal to segregate homes since the 1960s. ghettos are where welfare dependents are addicted to small cash pay ments, goes up when a single mother has another baby. im sure it teach them to go get pregnant & dont go to school/find a job that has more benefits for her & the children. im amazed teens from ghettos are poorly brought up. i own a business that i look for new hires & i wish to give them a chance in life. but they dress in gang attire & speak bad english. they cant conduct themselves properly in interviews. in most cases they arent interested in work. i worry the country's public schools are so bad (thanx to liberal mismanagement & 'new math', 'ebonics courses' or 'revised history') they dont graduate or their diplomas are cheapened after promoted to a new grade while they failed. we've as a country lowered standards to create a underclass, plus the hip-hop culture tells em 'blacks dont go to college' or what their peers tell em. it makes me mad, but im not black and not poor, but a working white man 45 years old, who knew blacks in my school i got along with and back then, poor blacks or whites or whoever wanted to graduated & get a great job. what happened? liberalism & moral decline, get welfare & you be treated/cared of alright. no more welfare states. no more race politics. and encourage young people in economic challenged homes to study, work hard, plan for goals, integrate well & not beg for others. dont use race or class to determine their lifes are bad over the distant past. but tell them the future is great & our country has a better economy than ever. i believe all races of americans (i call them american first) have the same dreams & abilities, no need to use race or color to label or divide for political purposes, any liberals know of this work well? cities fail from bad city politics, economic restrictions (costs), mismanagement of communities, & high tax rates to pay for social welfare states. i dont pay for failure to breed or grow ghettos, i pay for growth & wana teach the future not get stuck on this p-c lib hip-hop black power baloney. - signed, open-minded conservative.
whites live in ghettos too. and hiphop dosent glamorize poverty. where did u get that. they glamorize what happen after the got out of the poverty but never the poverty.
:I am very much in agreement with the author above, I just want to add this thought: This nation has had a long history of the desperate poor entering.They've all met bigotry and got by.Unless we believe blacks and hispanics to be inferior to the earlier arrivals, the only differance I can see is the new Deal.Traditionaly, employers, when deciding on a location wrestle between the the advantages of the poor area, low wages and those of a beter assimulated area, lower crime and end up going with the poorer area. What we've done, by federal labor law, is abolish incentive to locate in the ghettos becouse operation costs will be the same everywhere, and by judicial activism, aplified the dicincentive, the high-crime area is always the worst hit by criminal rights. More directly, anti-discrimination laws hurt only those bussinesses who opperate in minority areas. One never hires someone who's harder to fire.
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Yeah cus this isnt racist what so ever???
             Isn't the talk page for discussion about the article itself, and not about personal views on the topic of the article? 162.136.192.1 16:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ghettos survive by liberalism, not racism

message: I removed this sentence, which had its own section created called "Trivia".
"- Ghetto-themed songs have been created by several singers, such as Busta Rhymes, and Alicia Keys."
Is there another place we could put this? Thor Rudebeck 07:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghetto music 

message: The sentence 
:From its creation in 1462, until its dissolution at the end of the 18th century, the city council limited expansion in the Judengasse, resulting in steadily increasing overcrowding. 
at the beginning of the section 13th–19th centuries makes no sense to me.  Which ghetto was created in 1462, and which  city limited its expansion?? - Austrian 23:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which ghetto?? 

message: We should talk about early "isolated" Jewish communities For instance, Philo writing in the 1st century mentions that Jews in Alexandria, Egypt were forced out of the majority of the city by mobs into a small portion of one quarter.
P.S. When a page is protected, isn't there supposed to be a text box that says so?
151.197.28.239 19:26, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Ghettos 

message: Do you think Hooverville could be added to this article? Socialism20091011 (talk) 06:32, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hooverville 

message: There is erroneous usage of the term Muslim in this section as expemplified in the following excerpted sentence. 
::..."The poorer banlieues, or suburbs, of France, especially those of Paris, house an impoverished population largely of North African Muslim and Black African origin in large medium- and high-rise building developments known as "Cités"...
As one can see, not only does the sentence need re-structuring as well as editing, but the term Muslim is used to describe North African populations in a way deemed to differentiate them from "sub-Saharan" populations. The term Muslim is not exclusive or synonymous with just Arabs, but includes a wide array of ethnic groups and racial demographies. As a matter of fact, the overwhelming majority of these "Black African" populations, concentrated in these Parisian ghettos are generally of Saharan/Sahelian origin, from countries like the Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, or Niger, in other words, they are from countries that are significantly (if not wholly) Muslim in backgroud (in regards to religion). Please remove the word Muslim from the sentence, it is seriously pissing me off. Thank You - Jalopenio.
Villeurbanne a ghetto ? this article may confond with Venissieux.
Minato ku 19:56, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Post-World War II France

message: Reverted large deletion by User:Vitund as no edit summary and no explanation given on talk page  --carelesshx talk 21:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert 

message: Um... have these been called Ghettos in any sources? If so we need to cite them. Otherwise, I think we should move the info about Chinatowns. futurebird 22:19, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinatowns

message: I was just reading over this article and found that the term Blacks was used frequently. Should this be changed to something a little more PC? Just a thought...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.40.204.246 (talk) 00:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just a Thought 

message: Black is as PC as you can get.  Referring to people who have dark skin and whose families have lived in the US for generations as "African-American" implies they are first generation immigrants, or somehow less American than Caucasians.  The word "Black" describes the only real difference between us, and that is the color of our skin.  Caucasians are referred to as "White" although they aren't perfectly white, so it is silly to say using the term "Black" implies Black people's skin is perfectly black.
Absolute Relativity (talk) 03:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To call someone "black" is about they have a darker skin color near to the black hue and "African-American" is to denote they are of African ancestry, but the two terms can be inflammable and offensive when used in negative manner or to denigrate someone because of their race. "Black" became a self-title of choice in the 1960's an English translation for the Latin term "Negro" and an informal "colored" both are considered archaic or unpopular since the 1970's. Followed by "African-American" first proposed by US Supreme court justice Thurgood Marshall and then popularized by Civil rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson to identify themselves rather a minor ethnic group the same way we heard of "Irish-Americans", "Italian-Americans" and other hyphenated nationalities who are Americans first or born in the USA, and indeed was the term of choice in the 1990's when "black" was going back to unfavored status. In the year 2009, a "person of color" will decide whether or not he/she wants to be referred to or self-identify themselves as black, colored, Negro, African-American, etc. except the new trend is to be only "American" without any hyphenation or simply as "people" without discrimination of what skin color they are or what continent their ancestors came from. + 71.102.2.206 (talk) 12:09, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: An Answer

message: I'm having a hard time working this in to the flow of the section. If the report is so old and if it is:
" the most refuted document in American history "
Why do we even cite it? It adds no information except to say that Moynihan thought black neighborhoods were "messed up" ... or something... I have better and more recent sources. So, I'm going to remove it. futurebird 19:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: the Moynihan Report

message: Okay, everyone knows that in the 90's crips and bloods expanded into Canada. Now Canada doesnt have as much as the US but deffinitly more then the UK. So why isnt it included. I can find references and pictures every where of Ghetto's in Ontario, Manitoba, BC & Nova Scotia. Just look up Toronto Ghetto's, Vancouver Ghetto's. It's all on the net. Cities in Canada have low income neighbourhoods with drugs, gun violence, gangs. As far as crips and bloods, they are only in Southern Ontario and Northern Manitoba. But there are ghetto's across Canada. You can find Halifax ghetto's. If you go on youtube and type in real toronto. There are multiple videos showing the low income neighbourhoods in toronto and the videos show gangs dealing drugs, selling guns, carrying guns, shooting guns, scenes before they commit homocides. I think Canada deserves to be in this article! I can find tons of references to back this up!
Thank you whoever posted that info up! I didn;t think i would have been able to post the info myself, All i knew were rescources and experiences. Thanks dude, you did an excellent job.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.96.85.49 (talk) 22:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is this not included

message: In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :) 
* "Keating" :
** http://books.google.com/books?id=O0bnHQAACAAJ The Suburban Racial Dilemma: Housing and Neighborhoods] By William Dennis Keating. Temple University Press. 1994. ISBN 1566391474 
** The Suburban Racial Dilemma: Housing and Neighborhoods By William Dennis Keating. Temple University Press. 1994. ISBN 1566391474
* "Glaeser" :
** Ghettos: The Changing Consequences of Ethnic Isolation
** ...
** ..
DumZiBoT (talk) 13:52, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot report : Found duplicate references ! 

message: The article states that during the WWII Jewish ghettos were established.
It is quite wrong. The ghettos were there, but not fenced or walled. During WWII the Germans simply built a wall that surrounded pre-war Jewish quaters in Warsaw as the Jews rarely mixed/assimiliated with the local population and preferred to live voluntarily in their own communities before the war. 
Some other Jews were collected from small villages and other places around Warsaw and were transported to this walled ghetto later during the war.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.34.140.197 (talk) 01:31, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is simply incorrect. Sections of the city, usually in or near industrial zones, were selected and Jewish residents from the cities were forcibly relocated. My own family, living in Budapest, were forced from their apartment near the Dohany Street Synagogue and forced into the ghetto. In some instances the Jewish quarter of a ghetto was cordoned off, but in many others that was not the case. 4Tildes 208.125.143.178 (talk) 19:38, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish Ghettos during WWII 

message: This article need to expand on the modern use of the word "ghetto". --cooljuno411 07:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. In modern slang it seems to kind of mean "low class" without so much about race. Borock (talk) 16:24, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghetto - the modern use 

message: I recall hearing that a jewish area in north London had asked to become a 'restricted religious enclave' or something equivalent to this so that local rules by-laws etc could be superceded within the area in favour of ?Judaic ?Talmudic law for specific times eg Sabbaths.  This sounds like asking for the formation of a ghetto.  Salisbury9986.160.136.146 (talk) 17:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect you mean the erection of a eruv - it's a Jewish ritual thing, nothing to do with civil law and doesn't actually alter the demographics of the place (although you'd need a fairly high percentage of practising Jews in the area for anyone to bother proposing an eruv in the first place).  62.196.17.197 (talk) 12:30, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fourth 'voluntary' way to form a ghetto 

message: Smaller towns or communities in rural states like Kansas, Alabama, eastern Kentucky and Central California are reported to have "ghetto" characteristics. Indian reservations in the U.S. are another example for a certain racial group (Native Americans) to live apart from the white majority. Both urban and rural ghettos are economically isolated, but the rural kind are geographically isolated from main economic job centers and/or involved declining low-wage job bases like agriculture in the cases of the Black Belt of Mississippi; Yakima Valley, Washington and Standing Rock, South Dakota. These areas are notorious for having America's highest unemployment rates, welfare receipency/dependency for entire families on the rolls, and lower life spans due to poor medical care available there. + 71.102.2.206 (talk) 12:25, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rural ghetto]]s 

message: There is a section titled "post-war" which says: "After World War II, many emigrated to the United States and Israel. With the cold war progressing, industry was spread across the major cities and work assignments were given out."  Is it talking about the Soviet Union and other communist countries?  Is it saying that since work assignments were given out Jews left the ghettoes?  It needs to be more clear. Thanks. Borock (talk) 16:18, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What does this mean?

message: Wacquant's definition of the hyperghetto is a historical demarcation in quality (not simply intensity) from its prior form - the communal ghetto. this part of the article should distinguish the historical differences in terms of the changing class composition of the ghetto (ie the exit of middle and upper class blacks and the "Negro Aristocracy"(Dubois), the connected destruction of locally owned businesses and community organizations, the shift from a surplus labor pool for industry to a redundant labor force trapped in the ghetto, and the roll-out of the penal state, which all qualitatively changed the FUNCTION and FORM of the ghetto.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christoph.herring (talk • contribs) 18:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyperghetto 

message: does not conform to standard american usage, circa 2011; ghetto has taken on themeaning of uncultured or boorish, possibly synonomous with white trash
In any event, where are the citations (or whatever passes for a citation to printed material in teh electronic age ??)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.121.54 (talk) 17:50, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: intro

message: Clearly, for a city district to qualify as a "ghetto" it needs to meet the criteria stated in the introduction:
...an overcrowded urban area often associated with specific ethnic or racial populations living below the poverty line. Crime rates in ghettoes are typically higher...
The latter part of the Great Britain section 
"only two wards in England and Wales, both in Birmingham, had one dominant non-white ... Newham and Brent - had 'minority majority' ... The Savile Town area of Dewsbury was described as"
simply lists, in sensationalist Daily Mail fashion, regions with a significant proportion of 'non-white' residents, without elaborating on why these regions should be considered ghettos. Nor do the citations, which again, only give ethnic statistics.
The implicit assumptions seem sinister and discriminatory.
--Tshloab (talk) 22:50, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: May relate to indiscriminate or lay use of the term - basing it on the late state US model of a poverty and crime riddled ethnic minority inhabited slum area as opposed to the traditional or strict sociological criteria.  Misuse of technical terms in popular discourse is nothing new and "implicit assumptions" may well be in the eye of the beholder. 62.196.17.197 (talk) 12:34, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom section 

message: Just came by to clean up one example and was amazed at all the others.  Going to remove a few more of the most obviously unsourced and POV/offensive sections.  Please follow wikipedia policy on WP:Verifiability! Thanks. CarolMooreDC🗽 18:42, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning up worst unsourced WP:OR

message: The article seems to me to be a bit of a mess, both in overall layout, and the structure of particular sections  (particularly the bit about African American ghettos, which is a huge wall of text that needs dividing into appropriately titled subsections).  I don't know enough about the subjects to do anything about the latter, but for teh former, I'd suggest rearranging as follows:
:1) Historic (medieval) Jewish ghettos should go first, as that was the original meaning of the term
:2) Nazi-era Jewish ghettos next
:3) US ghettos, and US use of the term, as (judging by the amount of text) this appears to be the most significant meaning of ghetto after the first two.
:4) ghettos in other countries
:5) Other uses of the term
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thread_title:  Organisation and layout 

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message: Ghetto is not a generic term.
It is always about the Jews in Italy.  This whole article is overblown.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.12.252.229 (talk) 18:34, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Meriam Webstbers dictionary would disagree with you.Dig deeper  talk 01:34, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate 

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message: Websters has a third definition that is not given much attention in the lead: a : an isolated group (eg. a geriatric ghetto) b: a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity(eg the pink-collar ghetto) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto Dig deeper  talk 01:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: The article give the impression that Ghettos started in Venice: In fact it is only the name that comes from their. There were ghettoes in Germany much earlier, see Frankfurter Judengasse.
In 1215 the 4th Lateran council decreed that Jews weren't allowed to work in official social and occupational groups such as guilds and had to wear specific recognizable clothes. This is common to the whole Jewish people in old Europe.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.31.101.46 (talk) 18:26, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading information 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :In the hood. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 18#In the hood until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Un assiolo (talk) 19:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In the hood" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I really like what this wiki page has to offer, but I feel like there are a couple of things that would make it a little more informative. There are a few things in specific I would like to add from “Creating the Black Ghetto: Black Residential Patterns Before and During the Great Migration.” by John R. Logan, et al. The points I would like to add are in the section of “Black or African American ghettos” in the second and third paragraphs. The first one is to mention how "ghettos" were a thing way before the word was coined and this is mentioned in the article, African Americans were living in their own neighborhoods since 1880 (32). The next point is how when people moved north and west during The Great Migration that things were not just good right away and they still went through discrimination, shown in the article, when mentioning Chicago bombings in the article in 1920, after the migration started (32). John R. Logan is credible as he is a professor at Brown University. On top of this, he is well known for his research on racial segregation in the US. He also won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award in 1990. Altogether these additions would only add a few more sentences. If anyone wants to comment on these changes, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my Talk Page. RyanMakarem (talk) 17:33, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghetto before Ghettos  

message: Luciano 2409:4053:2C9F:567E:0:0:420A:B711 (talk) 14:29, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luciano 

message: The article claims that ghettos are areas where visible minorities live, which happen to be impoverished (second order effect). I would argue pretty strongly that ghettos are areas where the impoverished live, which unfortunately happen to include a high percentage of visible minorities. This distinction is important, especially when seeking socioeconomic solutions. 2605:59C8:22A8:E210:0:0:0:4BE (talk) 23:47, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition is backwards