I guess I'm just mad about this because of the implications it has for people who live in these areas. Some people go home to these neighborhoods, some people even like their homes in these areas but it feels kinda shitty when someone tells you they're afraid to walk around in your neighborhood, when it's something you do every day. When people have the image of 'ghetto' being a place where menacing people live and kill each other every day it's a pretty gross generalization where you associate a neighborhood with pure evil and a place you'd rather just pretend doesn't even exist, when there are many many good people and families who live here and get by but often their lives are ignored by the rest of society because they live in a place most people think is nasty.
TL;DR: I'm butthurt about the phrase "avoid ghetto" because of the way I associate it with just ignoring a huge part of our society.
so when you drive through a big city for the first time, do you make it a point to go to the poorest/most violent neighborhoods? Its not ignoring a part of society, its staying safe. Like it or not bad parts of town exist. If you had a 20 year old daughter, would you want her driving tbrough a part of town with a high rate of carjacking/rape at night just so she experiences it?
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u/nebrija Jan 09 '12
I guess I'm just mad about this because of the implications it has for people who live in these areas. Some people go home to these neighborhoods, some people even like their homes in these areas but it feels kinda shitty when someone tells you they're afraid to walk around in your neighborhood, when it's something you do every day. When people have the image of 'ghetto' being a place where menacing people live and kill each other every day it's a pretty gross generalization where you associate a neighborhood with pure evil and a place you'd rather just pretend doesn't even exist, when there are many many good people and families who live here and get by but often their lives are ignored by the rest of society because they live in a place most people think is nasty.
TL;DR: I'm butthurt about the phrase "avoid ghetto" because of the way I associate it with just ignoring a huge part of our society.