These do not technically exist within the American Region no matter how hard people try to convince you they do. An "American ghetto" is very tame where they sell drugs some murders ect. A real ghetto has thousands of murders, houses made from trash, 3 legged dogs running wild and all of the above. Take a look at the slums of Kingston Jamaica, India, Pakistan, Iraq, South America, Mexico, and Russia! Stop trying to act so poor and ghetto you retards.
Person 1: "Im from the ghetto"
person 2: "Your from the City of God?"
person 1: "No"
person 2: "Then shut the hell up"
person 2: "Your from the City of God?"
person 1: "No"
person 2: "Then shut the hell up"
by longjohn May 24, 2008
Part of every complete breakfast, ghettO's are a delicious chocolaty cereal similar to nigga please.
by Blair February 7, 2004
Textbooks will usually describe the word "ghetto" as a place where a minority group dominates. Unfortunately these cities and towns of living are often run down with a high crime rate. That is part of the reason Martin Luthe King addressed the problems of African Americans being forced from a "smaller ghetto to a larger one." In pop culture terms it often refers to bad living areas (whether minority groups dominate or not) and things that are of low quality.
Oprah: This fast food restraunt has the worst fries. It is so ghetto!
50 Cent: I grew up in the ghetto! Why do you think I am a rapper?
Alex Trebec: Why are my shows ratings getting to be so low? My show is not that ghetto!
Jessica Simpson: My black friends are not welcome on the farm. This run down country town is ghetto!
50 Cent: I grew up in the ghetto! Why do you think I am a rapper?
Alex Trebec: Why are my shows ratings getting to be so low? My show is not that ghetto!
Jessica Simpson: My black friends are not welcome on the farm. This run down country town is ghetto!
by FriendlyPersonGuy October 13, 2008
Keisha: I KNOW YOU AINT TALKING WITH YO BIG OL HOTDOG LOOKING HEAD
Nikki: GIRL THATS WHY YO MAN GOT SNATCHED UP IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU SO DAMN RATCHET COULDNT EVEN KEEP A MAN AROUND SO HE GOT SNATCHED UP!
*city girls plays in the background* GHETTO OL GIRL
Nikki: GIRL THATS WHY YO MAN GOT SNATCHED UP IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU SO DAMN RATCHET COULDNT EVEN KEEP A MAN AROUND SO HE GOT SNATCHED UP!
*city girls plays in the background* GHETTO OL GIRL
by lxvelysinner August 15, 2019
Building on the previous entry, in an urban American United States) context, "the ghetto" refers to areas, neighborhoods, wards, or districts of a city where, due to often racist and/or discriminatory municipal planning policy, certain groups have been intentionally confined and isolated because of their race or ethnicity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
So when someone says "Yo, we from the ghetto," it implies a separate culture and a separate frame of mind, which ties in nicely to keepin it real
by American Socialist November 17, 2006
by moniisprivv May 31, 2019
1. A ghetto is a section of a city predominantly occupied by a group who live there, especially because of social, economic, or legal issues. The term was originally used in Venice to describe the area where Jews were compelled to live.
2. Now A days Ghetto is used to describe many things that are poorly made or poor looking.
2. Now A days Ghetto is used to describe many things that are poorly made or poor looking.
Tom: We are going to the ghetto.
Joe: The Ghetto? What's That?
Tom: It's the place where all the poor, uneducated people live.
or
Kim: OMG that girl looks so Ghetto!
Sally: I know look at her Purple hair, that is so Ghetto!
Kim: And look at her fake Gucci Purse, only Ghetto people carry those!
Joe: The Ghetto? What's That?
Tom: It's the place where all the poor, uneducated people live.
or
Kim: OMG that girl looks so Ghetto!
Sally: I know look at her Purple hair, that is so Ghetto!
Kim: And look at her fake Gucci Purse, only Ghetto people carry those!
by JimmyBrackett January 26, 2012