What is a Ghetto
Neighborhood?
Some kids today will ask their selves, what is a Ghetto
Neighborhood? A ghetto neighborhood is where people with low income
paying jobs usually live. You might have heard that “only black people are in
ghetto neighborhood” but I will tell you why people say that, and why that is wrong.
I will also explain why it is called a ghetto neighborhood. Lastly, I will explain the environment
of a ghetto neighborhood.  |
| Figure 1: Kids playing in a ghetto neighborhood |
Why do people say, “only
black people are in ghetto neighborhoods”? People usually say that because
of the history of ghetto neighborhoods. Also, because most the population are
black people. In these neighborhoods their also of violence that goes on
throughout the days of being in a ghetto neighborhood. Black people are the main race in these
neighborhoods because most blacks wasn’t getting the good paying jobs all the
time. White people always had a chance to have a good job, so they always had a
choice to be in the ghetto or move to a better neighborhood. The people that
say only black people live in
ghetto neighborhoods are wrong. I will explain a point that give a
reason why that statement “only black people are in ghetto neighborhoods “is wrong,
because any race can live in the ghetto. Low income families live in ghetto neighborhood, and
that means any race can be living there. It all depends on how much money your
parents are making to decide can they afford a ghetto home or suburb home.
Name Making of GHETTO NEIGHBORHOOD
From the article I read, they
mentioned “Later still, during World War II, the Nazis revived the ghetto site
of enforced Jewish segregation.” Jewish started the naming of ghetto neighborhood, with
the Jewish word ghetto. Then when African Americans were affected by it in the early
1900s. Another thing mentioned from the article was “Meanwhile, African Americans had begun employing the term
“ghetto” to refer to their own residential segregation as early as the 1910s,
at a time when several American cities were passing zoning ordinances that
prohibited black people from living on blocks where the majority of residents
were white.” This is where the talk of the
population of black people in ghetto
neighborhoods started. Throughout the 1900s the ghetto word got used
worst by white people. An example from the article was “Digital history
resources reveal how usage of the word “ghetto” soared in the 1960s and 1970s and
how phrases like “Negro ghetto” or, increasingly, “black ghetto” came to
eclipse “Jewish ghetto.” That’s how the name of ghetto neighborhoods started, and how it changed
over time.
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| Figure 2: A picture of a ghetto neighborhood |
The type of Environment Ghetto
Neighborhoods Have.
You’re probably asking yourself to
do I live in a ghetto neighborhood?
I will explain how a ghetto
neighborhood looks on a regular day. Ghetto neighborhoods has plenty of corner
stores, the trash on the ground, no recycle trash cans, not good-looking schools,
gangs on streets, and lastly violence. If you lived in a ghetto neighborhood you
should know by the examples I gave. The corn stores are stores people go by
every day or go to every day. In ghetto neighborhoods most of the time there is trash on the ground.
Mostly suburbs have recycling trash cans in their neighborhood. The schools in ghetto neighborhood aren’t the
best, from the look of the school and the curriculum in the schools. Lastly,
the gangs on the streets brings violence to the neighborhood.
To conclude this blog about ghetto neighborhoods, I will
like to say ghetto neighborhoods is a good topic to learn about. The research
of the topic gives you a great understanding of how it became. You can learn
the pros of cons of the topic, and how a ghetto neighborhood can be better than what it is.
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