Words change, meanings change. Language is transient.Your post just goes to prove the myriad definitions-that have evolved over the course of decades- for one word. A bit of an own goal, no?

And, no, you needn't go on. Thanks all the same, but I think we've got the picture.

Jen (BA (Hons) Lingusitics)

1. ghetto – formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto"
quarter – a district of a city having some distinguishing character; "the Latin Quarter"

2. ghetto – any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool"

3. ghetto – a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

"The urban ghetto, constructed during the first half of the twentieth century and successively reinforced thereafter, represents the key institutional arrangement ensuring the continued subordination of blacks in the United States." (18)
"For urban blacks, the ghetto has been the paradigmatic residential configuration for at least eighty years."

"The term "ghetto" is most commonly applied to racially restricted housing patterns. It is meant to have broader connotations in this essay; as an impressionistic and interpretive phrase which meaningfully summarizes the social, economic and psychological positions of black people in the city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also symbolizes the ton e of urban race relations in those years."

Need i go on???

Rubinman should have taken care of him, being part wolf like he is.

Glad you didn't die though that would have sucked real bad!