[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

I'm not reinforcing anything, in fact I'm calling out the fact that that word is heavily associated with black people especially African Americans. Literally one google search of the words "Ghetto woman" and its just a sea of black women.

also your whole "loud and argumentative" argument just doesn't work I mean would you call kim woodburn ghetto? what about Katie Hopkins? or Megan McKenna? Did anyone call them ghetto? Because if they did I certainly didn't see it.

It is reinforcing negative stereotypes because we're going backwards, as Maru eloquently put all kinds of people get labelled Ghetto but yes it's an American term and it came form people's background and where they lived etc. Yes it was originally aimed at certain people but that's not the case these days.

So no obviously Megan , Kim or Katie probably wouldn't get labelled that as such . As none of them are American . But then again maybe some people have referred to them as ghetto who know's .

I see Ghetto as the American word for Chav

The word chav was and is an insult to people usually youngsters who blare loud music out , commit crime ,behave obnoxiously and fight . It was also aimed at predominantly white youth but nowadays all kinds of people get that label with antisocial behaviour and cheap dress sense and certain style in furniture and other things .