In common media tropes, a ghetto is also associated with black people and their cultural expressions, including braids, gold hoop earrings, and rap music. Instead, ghetto has become an adjective used to negatively judge any number of things, from outfits to run-down facilities. In reality, only people who have lived in these areas can really say what’s ghetto and what’s not.
Ghetto originally used as a reference to neighborhoods where members of a minority group reside - mostly due to social, political or economic pressure - the term ghetto has since become a racist and classist pejorative.
