What's the difference between ghetto and plebeian?

Ghetto


Definition:

  • (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sanders, the Vermont senator and self-described democratic socialist, first answered questions from Fox News anchor Bret Baier over his comments in Sunday’s debate that white people “don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto”.
  • (2) Goldsmith's ancestors, who include the Rothschilds, rose from the Frankfurt ghettos to become wealthy and prominent international entrepreneurs.
  • (3) The black and Latino communities have been gelling down baby hairs – the shorter, softer hairs on the hairline – for decades, but the styling technique was filed by the fashion world under “ghetto” until its wearers were white.
  • (4) In the ghetto, a church rally by the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People had ended abruptly to the anger of his audience.
  • (5) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
  • (6) Although one response is a paranoidlike reaction, aggression is also displayed directly in an attempt at mastery of the overwhelming frustration and life-threatening aspects of the ghetto.
  • (7) It's the sobering story of Benjamin Murmelstein, the last president of the Jewish Council in Theresienstadt ghetto, the concentration camp in the city of Terezín.
  • (8) Another photo album of the Warsaw ghetto taken by a German soldier calls itself a "cultural document for Adolf Hitler".
  • (9) When world champion boxer Muhammad Ali announced that he aspired to became “a black Henry Kissinger”, and that he only used his boxing skills to improve the lot of other African American men from the ghetto, he became an exception.
  • (10) Lots of people said it was going to be like a ghetto, but it's not like that at all.
  • (11) Her videos have been "accessorised with black dancers" and she uses US street slang like "rachet" (ghetto-diva) in her lyrics.
  • (12) Middle-class Britain has been shocked by the hidden reality of welfare ghettos revealed by TV programmes such as Benefits Street, Iain Duncan Smith is expected to say as he welcomes a Bank of England report claiming that his welfare-to-work reforms are bearing fruit.
  • (13) We are increasingly dividing our children through our school system, creating ghettos of privilege and under-privilege.
  • (14) It's understandable that people who now live on the spot that was once the Kovno ghetto , where close to 35,000 Jews were herded, starved and eventually led to their deaths, would not want to be constantly reminded of the fact.
  • (15) But there's no nostalgie de la boue, I don't go to the ghetto to look for people."
  • (16) Basically they were put in the ghetto in 1941 and in September 1942 ... they were all put on the cattle trains.
  • (17) A study has been reported on 5 years of experience in a community mental health center with a career escalation training program for indigenous workers in a ghetto community.
  • (18) Speaking outside court she said: "Mahmood got me and my team completely intoxicated and persuaded me to act the part of a bad, rough ghetto girl.
  • (19) In a speech in Manchester, Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, will warn against the country "sleep-walking" into a "New Orleans-style" quagmire of "fully fledged ghettoes".
  • (20) Qinghai is dotted with resettlement centres, many on the way to becoming ghettos.

Plebeian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
  • (n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
  • (n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The whole phenomenon could be summed up in the familiar phrase, coined by the Romans used to describe their strategy for placating the plebeians – "bread and circuses".
  • (2) Just as Demirtaş is the current darling of the western ambassadors, so Erdoğan was a decade ago; the ambassadors took it upon themselves to smooth his plebeian edges and refine his worldview.
  • (3) In his last Russian novel, The Gift , he devoted 50 pages to belittling and mocking the writer and his circle, but admitted that there “was quite definitively a smack of class arrogance about the attitudes of contemporary well-born writers towards the plebeian Chernyshevsky” and, in private, that “Tolstoy and Turgenev called him the ‘bed-bug stinking gentleman’ … and jeered at him in all kinds of ways”.
  • (4) Again in Port Harcourt, I saw a convoy with sirens blaring driving down the wrong side of the road to avoid waiting like the rest of us normal, plebeian people.
  • (5) Perhaps he made his exit via the constituency’s Durham Tees Valley airport, barked through security with his shoes and belt in a grey plastic tray, the fate to which his foreign policy adventures have condemned us plebeian travellers.
  • (6) In other ways, Wonga is just a soft target, put in the stocks for angry plebeians to throw rotten fruit at.
  • (7) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."