英['ɡetəʊ]美['ɡetoʊ]
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词源不确定。可能缩写自意大利语borghetto，小城区，词源同borough，hamburg.
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noun(名词)
小知识
Ghetto means a crowded poor part of a city lived in by a specific ethnic group. The word is powerful, often associated with a rich cultural heritage or a sense of shame and a desire to escape.
While most ghettos are formed through social forces (immigration, real estate values, public housing), in European cities during the time of the Nazi Holocaust (1939-1944), Jews were required by law to live in designated, often walled ghettos. Today, the word ghetto can also be used to describe non-geographic, but similarly cut off situations where one might feel stuck: “the academic ghetto.”