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Ahn Posted 19 years ago
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Differences among slum , ghetto, and skid row



The words 'slum' 'ghetto' and 'skid row' have similar meaning or do they use in different way?



  

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Slum : a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people ghetto : a part of a city, especially when a slum area, occupied by a minority group (originally used specifically of the Jewish quarter in Venice) Skid Row: a run-down part of a town frequented by vagrants and alcoholics Thus ghettoes and Skid Row can be part of a slum.

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  • Slum : a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people ghetto : a part of a city, especially when a slum area, occupied by a minority group (originally used specifically of the Jewish quarter in Venice) Skid Row: a run-down part of a town frequented by vagrants and alcoholics Thus ghettoes and Skid Row can be part of a slum.
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Slum : a squalid and overcrowded urban area inhabited by very poor people
ghetto : a part of a city, especially when a slum area, occupied by a minority group (originally used specifically of the Jewish quarter in Venice)
Skid Row: a run-down part of a town frequented by vagrants and alcoholics

Thus ghettoes and Skid Row can be part of a slum.
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Ahn

The words 'slum' 'ghetto' and 'skid row' have similar meaning or do they use in different way?




This term originated in Seattle, Washington, and was originally "skid road". Seattle started as a lumbering community, and when the trees were felled up on the hillside, the trunks were "skidded" dow
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