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- noun Plural form of
ghetto .
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Examples
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Descendants of white slaves living in American ghettos as gangsters, carjacking and dealing crack.
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Oh I know, we can house them all in ghettos so we KNOW if anyoen outside is illegal without traveling permits.
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There were also Russian aristocrats who'd fled the Revolution living in ghettos, and later, in the thirties, Jews escaping Europe settled there.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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No need to preach abstinence to Russians, they don't have millions of fatherless children flopping around in ghettos waiting to growing and be drug-abusing, womanizing, thugs!
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The fact is that today there are thousands of parents living in ghettos who, by the good fortune of knowing proper parenting strategies and possessing the minimum resources required to deliver a child into the educational system who is capable of engaging in a high level of successful academic behavior, are forced to send their children to schools filled with severely at-risk and disadvantaged youth.
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Previously enslaved, most live in ghettos in human cities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature 2010
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In all truth, there in the labor-ghettos is the roaring abysmal beast the oligarchs fear so dreadfully -- but it is the beast of their own making.
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They are looking at rappers in ghettos as their role models, they are looking at entertainers.
What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Japanese people, renamed as “Elevens”, were forced to survive in ghettos, while Britannians lived in first-class settlements.
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The reason the occupation has been so desperate to forcibly transfer the Arab population of Iraq into separate religious ghettos, is because it will serve as a pretext for population transfer (i.e. expulsion) in Palestine.
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