Quote Originally Posted by Guitari609
18. Slums and ghettos, to me at least, are pretty much the same things, poor neighborhoods, and often plagued by crime.
So the word ghetto does not sound to you as a foreign one? Because, for me both are foreign, but do not mean the same in my language. We do not have any ghetto there, in Slovakia, but little hamlets full of gipsy people (how do you call gipsy people in your country, maybe sinties?)
Ghetto here is often used in certain circles the same way as slum is used. It is frequently used in ganster rap in reference to poor neighborhoods in the inner cities.