Ghetto
Ghetto noun - A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
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Crapsaccharine World: Ashtray's neighborhood looks more like a very clean suburb than a ghetto.
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Hannibal Lecture: Parodied by Mike Powers right down to the glass cell on Jones by claiming to know about Jones's "gritty ghetto life." However, it fails as Jones casually admits he grew up in the well-off WASP-y suburb of Mound, Minnesota.
Source: Series / Reno 911! - Bully has the town of Bullworth, which has the rich suburb Old Bullworth Vale and the downtown political and commercial district Bullworth Town separated from the inner city ghetto New Coventry and the rough blue collar industrial neighborhood Blue Skies Industrial Park by a railway bridge.
Source: Urban Segregation
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