单词 | ghetto life |
释义 | > as lemmasghetto life a. General use as a modifier, as in ghetto Jew, ghetto life, ghetto youth, etc.Now frequently with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of the ghetto (sense A. 3b), or its predominantly African-American inhabitants and culture’: compare uses of the adjective at B. ΚΠ 1858 Bentley's Misc. 44 86 The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries..were probably the season of the greatest oppression the Ghetto Jews endured. 1894 D. Philipson Old European Jewries 224 A number of authors have presented these genre pictures of Ghetto life to the reading world. 1908 J. London Martin Eden xxxviii. 327 Tell them why you don't want socialism. Tell them what you think about them and their ghetto ethics. 1968 W. Labov et al. Study of Non-Standard Eng. of Negro & Puerto Rican Speakers in NYC i. 278 The question must be posed to those..who see the actual performance of the ghetto youth as a deviation from some ideal, homogeneous Black English. 1982 R. Sheppard & M. Valpy National Deal v. 83 Joe Clark believed that the majority Quebec view was not the product of a ‘ghetto mentality’. Rather, it was shaped by cultural pride. 2021 M. Sy Uy & N. André in C. H. Garrett & C. J. Oja Sounding Together xi. 320 Not all people of color have the same stories, despite attempts to stereotype the ghetto child, model minority or illegal alien. < as lemmas |
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