ghettoization
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- noun
- /ˌɡɛtəʊaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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ghettoización
- Activists are fighting against the ghettoization of schools to ensure equal opportunities for all students.
Examples
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Poor neighborhoods such as Nima and Labadi and the ever-expanding suburbs are often discussed by young inhabitants in the language of ghettoization gleaned from hip hop lyrics.
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Ghettoization, for example, has plagued Native Americans much as it has African Americans.
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From this, everybody stands to gain, provided that the ghettoization of such courses is avoided, whether ethnic or ideological.
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The fight against racial discrimination, impoverishment, and ghettoization of immigrant areas in cities should be a national priority.
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The net result is overextension, leading to destabilization and a hardening of ghettoization from the withholding of resources.
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In the process, a growing mass of urban youth have been relegated to unemployment, urban displacement, and self-described ghettoization.
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The recent ghettoization of certain housing projects—always incomplete—is a function of their criminalization.
Academic text (2011) -
Whereas notions of authenticity and essentialism become limiting burdens for artists attempting to avoid ghettoization in today's global art market, many Indigenous artists eschew this Western problematic.
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The ghettoization of neighborhoods often leads to increased poverty and disenfranchisement among residents.
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The documentary highlights the ghettoization of the community, showing how its isolation impacts daily life.
Synonyms
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Authorities keep people apart by race or religion, often with different facilities
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To treat a person or group as unimportant and outside the main society
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Keeping people apart because of their race, for example in schools or public places
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Leaving someone out of a group on purpose
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To exclude someone from a group as punishment or social rejection
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Leaving a person out of social activities so they feel alone
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Excluding people from normal social life because they belong to a low caste or class
A place or group that is cut off and surrounded by a different area
Using language or behavior that treats people as different and outside the group
Leaving someone out of a group so they cannot join in
Antonyms
How Segregated
- Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Specialized
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- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ghettoization comes from ghetto, an Italian name for the part of a city where Jews were once 'forced to live', giving a clear picture of people kept apart. So ghettoization is the process of making a group or place 'separate' and often poor or disadvantaged.