What's the difference between ghetto and riffraff?

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.

Riffraff


Definition:

  • (n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The financial regulator is not there to act like a badass new sheriff in town who is going to cleanse it of the riffraff and crack down on loose morals.
  • (2) "We'll never accept this riffraff," said the leader of the Party of France , Thomas Joly.
  • (3) The kind of riffraff that behave like militias on behalf of local oligarchs.
  • (4) These girls were treated like riffraff who were undeserving of the law and not deemed worthy of care – and that was the overwhelming thing we learnt from this story,” said Hogg, adding: “The terrible thing was when the girls came in to tell the police what was happening, the police ignored them because they didn’t believe when they stood up in the witness box they would be believed.” I exposed the Rochdale scandal – Three Girls should be a catalyst for progress | Sara Rowbotham Read more The was a view echoed by Taylor.

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