A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic or religious background are united in a given low condition area, voluntarily or involuntarily, for mild or strict seclusion. .The term now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. Tenements, mobile home parks, farm labor housing, reservation, and low income designated housings indicate the low income areas in every small to large city worldwide. Different names for the same places like barrios, budget trailer parks, etc., are also ghettos. Many decide to live in culturally isolated societies as defensive conditions. Many also choose to remain there or associate with their own group as a part of cultural preservation. “Ghetto” is also used figuratively to indicate geographic areas with a concentration of any type of persons suffering from poverty. The term is also used to describe an item or an action as cheap or flimsy. Some consider this use of language to be an offensive misapplication.
As perfectly exemplified by the artist known as “Ice Cube”- in many of his videos, the music video “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It“, expresses the deflective blaming attitude of the most lazy of the society, against those they allow to suffer. Gangster Rap artists such as W.C., Mac-10, E-40, and a few others are true life expressing artists. They have often been scapegoated and blamed for the very problems they tell stories of in song. No current music art has as equal amount of social motivation and/or awareness development impacts around the world as Hip Hop. Art tends to be the strongest motivational force among all of humanity for awareness of local to international ills, and creative stimulation to solve personal and social problems.
The term “economically disadvantaged areas” is the new terminology. This disruption of social joy and equality led to the current status of regional underdevelopment common worldwide. This set of facts is also very well displayed in the music video by a group called “The Geto Boy’s” – called “The World is a Ghetto“.
(Excerpt from my book “The Global Situation” )
As perfectly exemplified by the artist known as “Ice Cube”- in many of his videos, the music video “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It“, expresses the deflective blaming attitude of the most lazy of the society, against those they allow to suffer. Gangster Rap artists such as W.C., Mac-10, E-40, and a few others are true life expressing artists. They have often been scapegoated and blamed for the very problems they tell stories of in song. No current music art has as equal amount of social motivation and/or awareness development impacts around the world as Hip Hop. Art tends to be the strongest motivational force among all of humanity for awareness of local to international ills, and creative stimulation to solve personal and social problems.
The term “economically disadvantaged areas” is the new terminology. This disruption of social joy and equality led to the current status of regional underdevelopment common worldwide. This set of facts is also very well displayed in the music video by a group called “The Geto Boy’s” – called “The World is a Ghetto“.
(Excerpt from my book “The Global Situation” )
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