The American Heritage College Dictionary defines the word "ghetto" in 3 different ways. 1) A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there esp. because of social, economic, or legal pressure. 2) An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages. 3) Something resembling the restriction or isolation of a ghetto. ... I'm ghetto." That's a line from Jermaine Dupri's song "Ghetto". ... People will often say something is "ghetto" or even "ghetto fabulous". ... "She boughetto, that mean she bourgeois and ghetto. ...

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However "acting white" has been known to be portrayed as an African American individual that has chosen to speak properly and become serious about his or her life and future, and act in a manner that is not of the "ghetto" or "gangster" culture. ... Because of the numerous varieties of personalities between both black and white people, a conclusion can be reached that there can be no distinct definition that can be printed in the dictionary for personality types between black and white peoples. ...

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Grassroots is defined as "the ordinary people in an organization, rather than the leaders" by the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2001 edition. ... The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... During the late 1960s and early 1970s influential organizations were formed in the dangerous Northern ghettos, "These groups formed, in the aggregate, part of a growing g...

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Hannah Arendt thinks that Eichmann's trial was an excruciating lesson in the "banality of evil. " Banal is defined as lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring (Webster's Dictionary). ... He claims that he had "invented " the ghetto system when in reality it was the idea of Heydrich. ... However, with Eichmann boasting does make him evil because he was bragging about the deaths and ghetto's that he "caused " or "created ". ...

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Holocaust, before World War II may have been used to define, as the dictionary states, "a destruction or slaughter of a mass scale.... They set up ghettos for the ethnic Germans, which had been placed in Poland, but soon there were too many and not enough space. ...

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The Steel Beneath the Gold "Gild"ed: To Make seem more attractive or valuable than it is" -Webster's New World Dictionary Between the Civil War and the early 20th century, an era of growth, wealth, and power was born. ... Between the extreme growth of the national population, and the severe lack of job opportunities provided America with a boom in industrialization as well as a frightening unemployment rate, accompanied by growing ghettos and slums. ...

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The races of this nation have been stratified into an unequal caste system; According to Webster dictionary the proper definition of a caste system is a division of society based upon differences of wealth, rank or occupation. ...

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