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no i am not a troll. you can check my post. I wish somebody would answer my question.
maybe you're not a troll...but you seem to be confused. In the US, "ghetto" is much more often used to describe a run down, ugly, high crime area. The textbook definition doesn't really apply as far as most people are concerned. This is why people find it offensive to equate black people (or any people) with "ghetto."
Also Durham doesn't have an all that high a violent crime rate either (you said it was moderate, which I guess you could say for Durham, but Baton Rouge is actually kinda high for violent crime). Baton Rouge's violent crime rate was nearly 50% higher than Durham's in 2008, over 50% higher than Durham's in 2007, 50% higher than Durham's in 2006, and nearly 70% higher in 2005.
What are you really trying to ask? Which of the two majority black cities is most attractive? And yet Durham is not even majority black...
The census website states that as of 2008 (most recent numbers) Durham is 39% black and 43% white. Either way, it hardly qualifies durham as a "racial ghetto" like you're implying. 43% isn't a "majority" anyways. You'd need over 50% for that.
You're obviously using ghetto as a replacement for large black population. Would you consider any city with a large polish population to be ghetto? Or how about a large Asian population?
Also, if you were going to try to cite the dictionary, you forget that the emphasis is on discrimination and poverty coupled with an ethnic community. An ethnic community being dominant, by itself, does not qualify as ghetto. What about Durham and Baton Rouge makes them particularly strong showings for discrimination and poverty?
This isn't simply a PC thing (oh you non-PC rebel!), but a problem with actual definitions of words and their connotations as well.
A ghetto is a particular area of a city that are inhabited by ethnic groups, due to economic, social and legal pressure. It is rare to describe a whole city as a ghetto, unless it was in despair shape such as Detroit.
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