Where you are born is more predictive of your future than any other factor

Re:Where you are born is more predictive of your future than... by keiferski on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:33AM (#20994188)

They are almost equivalent in everyday use, but in actual meaning, they are different.

"The projects" strictly refers to the building developments themselves, but is often used informally to refer to a poor neighborhood in general.

"The Ghetto" refers to a neighborhood of an urban area and not a particular building or group of buildings. "The projects" are often in the ghetto but not necessarily.

Saying "I grew up in the ghetto" and "I grew up in the projects" are more-or-less equivalent. Both only refer to urban areas; there is no such thing as a rural ghetto.

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Re:Where you are born is more predictive of your future than... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:52AM (#20994376)

Rural poverty is definitely poverty.

The term rural ghetto can be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto

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Re:Where you are born is more predictive of your future than... by keiferski on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:57AM (#20994432)

> Rural poverty is definitely poverty.

I didn't say that rural poverty isn't poverty. I'm simply saying that the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.

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Re:Where you are born is more predictive of your future than... by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:33PM (#20999767)

”there is no such thing as a rural ghetto.”

”the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.”

These are not the same thing.

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