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ghetto A term with its origins in eastern Europe, used to designate the part of town occupied by Jewish citizens. Now the term ghetto is used to describe any urban area suffering significant deterioration, often predominated by one or a very few ethnic or racial groups. Disputes often arise regarding whether lenders, insurers, and other service providers are engaged in illegal discrimination when they redline these neighborhoods, or whether they are assessing risks based on the quality of the infrastructure and not on any judgments regarding the inhabitants.How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``We have an elected school board with full authority, and Mayor Villaraigosa's plan will only lead to the breakup of the school district and the ghettoization of L. France always talks about avoiding ghettoization," Sabeg says, "but it has already happened. The end of residential segregation by municipal ordinance was, to be sure, only the beginning of the story of the state intervention on behalf of black ghettoization. |
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