What's the difference between ghetto and slum?

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.

Slum


Definition:

  • (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
  • (n.) Same as Slimes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
  • (2) Age specific prevalence rates of leprosy after examining more than 80% of population from these colonies are compared with data derived from normal slums situated elsewhere in the city.
  • (3) The project is divided into units which cover a community block either in a rural or tribal village area or an urban slum.
  • (4) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
  • (5) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
  • (6) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
  • (7) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
  • (8) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
  • (9) I managed to raise eight grand.” Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Read more Soon, he was running his own independent techno label, Dead Elvis Records, and organising Deaf, an annual electronic music and arts festival in Dublin.
  • (10) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
  • (11) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
  • (12) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
  • (13) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
  • (14) It was built by respecting highly restrictive norms that regulate construction activity in slums and for less than the average cost of construction in the area.
  • (15) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
  • (16) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
  • (17) Trained nutritionists visited 5 slum centers within 48 hours of the completion of the monthly weighing of the children.
  • (18) Point prevalence of 'High Risk' factors was assessed in 450 mothers of reproductive age group residing in two urban slum communities.
  • (19) A community-based family planning operations research project was undertaken in selected low income communities of Rio de Janeiro; this activity represented the 1st attempt to obtain contraceptive prevalence data in fanelos (slums) of Rio.
  • (20) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.