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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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This will lead to the formation of cultural Internet Ghettos - but it will also considerably reduce tensions and largely derail populist legislative efforts aimed at curbing or censoring free speech.
Roma are forced to live in run-down ghettos, often as squatters in condemned buildings, because of the general poverty among Roma.
The Romani "ghettos" were constantly growing, and in some countries sterilization practices were introduced as a means of limiting the Romani birthrate--a new example of Romani genocide.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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There are still too many slums and too many ghettos; too many dilapidated neighborhoods, too many bloated bellies that go to bed hungry; too many people of color disenfranchised and marginalized by ancient and modern systems and philosophies that promote greed, which creates and continues to perpetuate the ever-present pestilence called poverty.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It is little wonder that some housing estates have now become Sinn Fein Ghettos, where even Roman Catholics live in fear of speaking against the policies of Gerry Adams and his partners in crime.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The ghettos served as a secure holding place while prisoners awaited deportation to concentration camps.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Manche Ghettos wurden allerdings von Anfang an als Lager errichtet, und die Bezeichnung "Ghetto" war aus verschiedenen Grunden auch in diesem Sinne nur formell.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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The Jewish Ghettos, which the Nazis established in all the major Jewish population centers of Poland, were part of the systematic plan to get rid of all the Jews in Europe, and were intended as a transitional measure.
There are ethnic ghettos, generational ghettos, gender ghettos, economic ghettos, and each one reinforces negative stereotypes not only among outsiders but within the group, often even encouraging people to take on stereotypes that they would otherwise eschew.
What the Palestinians live in now are two ghettos or concentration camps that are cut off from the rest of the world and surrounded by Israeli settlements and cities.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Ghettos of immigrants were being dispersed and Catholics found themselves living next to Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers etc.
They were going to lead us out of our Catholic ghettos by altering the liturgy, rewriting the Bible and missals, abandoning the old traditions, making us more ecumenical, and engaging the world.
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