A ghetto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡetto]), often the ghetto, is usually a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.[1] Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of the ghetto appear across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people. The term was originally used for the Venetian Ghetto in Venice, Italy, as early as 1516, to describe the part of the city where Jews were restricted to live and thus segregated from other people. However, early societies may have formed their own versions of the same structure; words resembling "ghetto" in meaning appear in Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Germanic, Old French, and Latin. Ghettos in many cities have also been nicknamed "the hood", colloquial slang for "neighbourhood" after it is shortened to 'hood.[2] During the Holocaust, more than 1,000 Nazi ghettos were established to hold Jewish populations, with the goal of exploiting and killing the Jews as part of the Final Solution.[3][4] The term has been widely used in the United States to refer to inner city neighborhoods that are mainly African American or poor. has deep cultural meaning in the United States, especially in the context of segregation and civil rights. It is also used in some European countries to refer to poor neighborhoods. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhettoGhetto how deep can 1789 be? 231 years. 1789 to 2020, current year, is 231 year(s).
Uh, not quite. Venice (Venezia) was a city.- and it likely had a just one "ghetto", that of Jewish residents. Jews in a good number of countries had at the time no right to own land but were very good a dealing money (loaning, exchanging) as a means of financial subsistence - and this throughout history ....
