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Originally posted by Bamboozled
[Your second point is ludicrous. Jews don't have a coin on the term. In this country, a ghetto is an area of economic depression, which just so happens to be unproportionately represented by minorities. It is a fact that when people use the word ghetto today, they are not referring to Nazi-Germany. [/B]
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I may not be referring to Nazi Garmany but read on, as this comes from dictionary.com
ghet·to ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gt)
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: “trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).
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[Italian, afterGhetto, island near Venice where Jews were made to live in the 16th century.]
So technically it is a word of italian origin, referring to where the Jews in Italy used to live.
Just an informational post, please don't flame. So while Jewish people do not have a "coin" on the term, it was an appropriate statement.