Child Photographed With A Bong

because in regards to spoken word the concept "ghetto" is associated with "african american" people, it was also where the jews got holed up, what's your point?

people's system of learning is like monkeys, they do what they see from the people they mostly adore, kind of funny how much we are alike to our close cousins them monkeys. so I guess them kids talking ghetto are just copying someone they admire, and don't give a *** about properly talking english, so maybe they did choose to be that way? I can't generalize because I don't know all of the cases, but IMO it's still sounds pretty vulgar, ghetto sounds animal like, people talk too loud too.

You have to also consider that constantly talking down to those that speak 'ghetto' in a professional tone can seem offensive, as if you're better than them. Of course, if you really feel that way, then go ahead. You know, if you have that 'I have a higher pay check than you so I'm better' mentality.

@ En, you're right, I just didn't feel like getting into that.

@ Vinn, daddy damage : no, my father never did anything wrong to me. As far as accents go, correct, they don't bother me. Refer to Eneas's post. As far as me having a problem with black people, I don't. My 5 closest friends are black and I work with several "black people" who are some of the strongest professionals I know. So don't be a naive juvenile and resort this to a racial issue.

@Has, no way.

My point? None I was only asking, that's why I said 'don't take this the wrong way, just a question'.

but I also thought some white people tried to speak ghetto too lol I wouldn't know, I'm not american I'm just letting myself go with what I've seen from a distance.

ghetto is a slang word, respond to my other post.
i make it as a racial issue because ghetto in regards to the united states is a racial term, regardless of how you dbags try to spin it.
the correct word is: ebonics.

"Ghetto" has nothing to do with JUST African Americans. If you really believe that, you have no place in this conversation.

This is why children should not take bongs! It leads to arguments!

apparently people are connecting ghetto with black people, I would still like to know why...

i swear, quoting myself.

and copypasta:
African American ghettos
See also: White flight and Racial segregation in the United States
Chicago ghetto on the South Side, May 1974.

Urban areas in the U.S. can often be classified as "black" or "white", with the inhabitants primarily belonging to a homogenous racial grouping.[10] Forty years after the African-American civil rights era (1955–1968), parts of the United States remain a residentially segregated society in which blacks and whites inhabit different neighborhoods.[11][12] Cities throughout history have contained distinct ethnic districts.[9] Due to segregated conditions black neighborhoods in the United States have been called "ghettos".

Many of these neighborhoods are located in Northern cities where African Americans moved during The Great Migration (1914–1950) a period when over a million[13] African Americans moved out of the rural Southern United States to escape the widespread racism of the South, to seek out employment opportunities in urban environments, and to pursue what was widely perceived to be a better life in the North.[13] In the Midwest, neighborhoods were built on high wages from manufacturing union jobs; these in-demand jobs dried up during the decline of industry and the ensuing downsizing at steel mills, auto plants, and other factories starting in the early 1970s.[9] Segregation increased most in those cities with the greatest black in-migration and then crippling economic decline, epitomized in cities like Gary, Indiana.[14]

In the years following World War II, many white Americans began to move away from inner cities to newer suburban communities, a process known as white flight. White flight occurred, in part, as a response to black people moving into white urban neighborhoods.[14][15] Discriminatory practices, especially those intended to "preserve" emerging white suburbs, restricted the ability of blacks to move from inner-cities to suburbs, even when they were economically able to afford it. In contrast to this, the same period in history marked a massive suburban expansion available primarily to whites of both wealthy and working class backgrounds, facilitated through highway construction and the availability of federally subsidized home mortgages (VA, FHA, HOLC). These made it easier for families to buy new homes in the suburbs, but not to rent apartments in cities.[16]

In response to the influx of black people from the South, banks, insurance companies, and businesses began denying or increasing the cost of services, such as banking, insurance, access to jobs,[17] access to health care,[18] or even supermarkets[19] to residents in certain, often racially determined,[20] areas. The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to mortgage discrimination. Data on house prices and attitudes toward integration suggest that in the mid-twentieth century, segregation was a product of collective actions taken by non-blacks to exclude blacks from outside neighborhoods.[21]

The "Racial" Provisions of FHA Underwriting Manual of 1938, included the following guidelines which exacerbated the segregation issue:

Recommended restrictions should include provision for: prohibition of the occupancy of properties except by the race for which they are intended …Schools should be appropriate to the needs of the new community and they should not be attended in large numbers by inharmonious racial groups.[14][22]

This meant that ethnic minorities could secure mortgage loans only in certain areas, and it resulted in a large increase in the residential racial segregation and urban decay in the United States.[23] The creation of new highways in some cases divided and isolated black neighborhoods from goods and services, many times within industrial corridors. For example, Birmingham, Alabama’s interstate highway system attempted to maintain the racial boundaries that had been established by the city’s 1926 racial zoning law. The construction of interstate highways through black neighborhoods in the city led to significant population loss in those neighborhoods and is associated with an increase in neighborhood racial segregation.[24] By 1990, the legal barriers enforcing segregation had been replaced by decentralized racism, where whites pay more than blacks to live in predominantly white areas.[9] Some social scientists suggest that the historical processes of suburbanization and decentralization are instances of white privilege that have contributed to contemporary patterns of environmental racism.[25]

Despite mainstream America’s use of the term "ghetto" to signify a poor, culturally or racially-homogenous urban area, those living in the area often used it to signify something positive. The black ghettos did not always contain dilapidated houses and deteriorating projects, nor were all of its residents poverty-stricken. For many African Americans, the ghetto was "home": a place representing authentic blackness and a feeling, passion, or emotion derived from rising above the struggle and suffering of being black in America.[26] Langston Hughes relays in the "Negro Ghetto" (1931) and "The Heart of Harlem" (1945): "The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone/And the streets are long and wide,/But Harlem’s much more than these alone,/Harlem is what’s inside." Playwright August Wilson used the term "ghetto" in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984) and Fences (1987), both of which draw upon the author’s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.[9]

Recently the word "ghetto" has been used in slang as an adjective rather than a noun. It is used to indicate an object's relation to the inner city or black culture, and also more broadly, and somewhat offensively, to denote something that is shabby or of low quality. While "ghetto" as an adjective can be used derogatorily, the African American community, particularly the hip hop scene, has taken the word for themselves and begun using it in a more positive sense that transcends its derogatory origins.
[edit] Other ghettos

Chinatowns originated as racially segregated enclaves where most Chinese immigrants settled from the 1850s onward. Major Chinatowns emerged in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts; Camden and Trenton, New Jersey; Chicago; Los Angeles, Oakland; San Francisco and San Diego, California; New York City; New Orleans; Akron, Ohio; Philadelphia; Portland, Oregon; Seattle; Vancouver; Toronto and other major cities. Today, most Chinese Americans no longer reside in those urban areas, but post-1970s Asian immigration from China, Southeast Asia and the Philippines have repopulated many Chinatowns. Many Little Italys, Chinatowns (or Koreatowns and Little Tokyos) and other ethnic neighbourhoods have become more middle-class in recent times, dominated by successful restaurant owners, family-owned stores and businessmen able to start up their own companies. Many have become tourist attractions in their own right.[citation needed]

In the United States, many Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean concentrated in barrios located in cities with large Hispanic populations such as Orange County, California; Anaheim, Baldwin Park, Chino, Coachella, El Centro, El Monte, Fresno, Huron, Hemet, Indio, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Modesto, Monrovia, Moreno Valley, National City, Oakland, Ontario, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana, California and Temecula; Alexandria, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and San Antonio, Texas; Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Tucson, and Yuma, Arizona; Oklahoma City; New York City; Brentwood, New York ;Chicago and Sterling, Illinois. Many of these cities struggled with issues of crime, drugs, youth gangs and family breakdown. However, middle-class and college-educated Hispanics moved out of barrios for other neighborhoods or the suburbs. The barrios continually thrived by the large influx of immigration from Mexico, this largely due to the explosion of the Latino population in the late 20th century. The majority of residents in these urban barrios are immigrants directly from Latin America.[citation needed]



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why does the "black ghetto" part happen to be large, because the word ghetto is associated with black people rather than other impoverished groups.
and the fact that i am good friends with people who came out of that life situation isn't really a factor, but since princemercury is RL carding i will too.

Vin, did you learn more in school or more from home? Lol.

he's just here to raise the drama-meter apparently, you guys are talking calmly and he's here to accuse and call everyone racial and dbags lol ignore him.

anyways look at this. so much truth in it.

Again, I'm sorry you are so ignorant, misinformed, or delusional. You are very much incorrect in stating that "weed is not bad for you in any way". While the chemicals in marijuana are not as potently addictive as other drugs, including nicotine, marijuana IS addictive. Period.

The fact that you've been smoking it for 5 years supports the hypothesis that you are addicted. Want to prove me wrong? Then stop smoking marijuana for the next year, cold turkey, starting right now. I bet you can't do it.

Also, the toxins inhaled when smoking weed are in fact blackening your lungs. There's no way around it, it's happening with every hit, whether you like it or not. You may be able to run a mile well today, but imagine how much better you would run if you didn't smoke ... and more importantly, imagine what your lungs will look like in 20 years if you continue to smoke.

Stay in denial as long as you'd like, and when you're ready to rejoin reality, let us know. Until then, please, don't procreate. Thanks.

Dark, I saw that video before, I loved it lmao.

it doesn't have to be their families who are ghetto, probably the groups they hang out with IN school and after school. it doesn't matter.
like I said people's learning system is like monkeys, they copy/learn from who they admire most, at most times.

why do you think TV/actors the MEDIA overall is such a big influence on society?

which did you speak more at, school or home?
your family has a lot more impact on your speech and dialect, you should know that :/

lol I love you. Recklesstortuga is the best channel. such cold hard sarcasm :o

Yes, but you do not continue speaking in such dialect if you know it's wrong.

Edit: If you do, then well you're most likely not going to land a professional job, then you end up blaming people not giving you an opportunity. Loopback?

I have to agree to this, family does impact on you a lot, but you can't always agree to that, some children sometimes prefer to stay distant from home for whichever reason, a simple example would be chaos on the home, and would rather spend more time with their social groups which they get influenced by more.

it all really depends on the child's choice too.

I think when people really understand something is wrong by doing it they stop the behaviour if they have morals, so we can all agree these people don't realize ghetto is vulgar and makes their IQ look like it's 50-?


edit: Agreed with your edit, completly agree and you have no idea how right you are, your image is defenately what sells on the job buiseness.

I say it still depends. As for right and wrong, that depends on the person. Both of my parents are African American and still slip in some double negatives and stuff (ain't got no money, etc) and it doesn't effect their government jobs at all. Some places have zero tolerance for it. It's America - it's too diverse for it to be a big deal. Some countries are serious about it. I can call my boss "dude" and it wouldn't effect me.

It's never logical to walk into an interview speaking nonsense, but it's also not fair to simply deny someone because of their speech. Now, if they're arrogant, that's different.

Lol agreed, and I don't know what he's saying about running a mile with out a problem, my ex used to smoke weed a lot and he told me he had to stop sports because the weed didn't really allow him to do sports efficiently.

He chose the drug, because he was addicted, the fact this person has been on weed for 5 years prooves he's addicted, just not to a level where he depends on it every minute. it's a less hardcore addiction.

he's delusional, well what do you expect? He's been on a drug for 5 years, every chemical has an impact on you, even drugs that medics give you, and yes weed has chemicals, it's naturaly brought from earth, but do you have any idea how unpure the weed is? All the things they put on the weed to help it grow, and after it's been processed and what not, they actually add more chemicals to make it more hardcore and have it sell faster. (yes I know, I've been involved before, glad I'm not anymore)

and before this person says 'I smoke pure clean weed w/e' You'd have to grow it yourself lol and when you actually taste the one you grew you will not want it, it's never going to give you a hit as strong as the one you buy.

so have fun growing your own dosis and farming it every once in a while~

I think it really depends what you want to do in life.
Regardless of what you say, not everyone is meant to be in a professional business setting, and not everyone speaks in that manner.
It just really depends on who you are at that point.
If your speech skills really blow but you are a prodigy, I doubt you are going to find a good job.
Regardless of the fact of what people know from their 13 or so years they spend time with their family/friends/etc, they are impressed upon by their social constructs in tandem with their learning.
It really breaks down to how you grew up.
Sorry if I got a bit offended over the whole lot.
I just think the blame shouldn't be solely on the individual.

yeah but america is very racial, the times I've visited america people have treated me badly before for the way i look/speak and even on the phone when I call for services in america and I'm talking in english people start to loose patience with my accent and don't want to help me with what I need.

I really think twice about it when I say I want to move to america :/ PR isn't even close to that racial, at all.

Actually, in my own personal experience, I tend to fall into different modes of speaking depending on the environment I'm in.

My mother, despite coming here as a college student, speaks with only a hint of an accent, but still hasn't gotten over the grammar thing half the time. So at home, I sort of lose the grammar Nazi nature and go into "home-speak" mode. A lot of my pronunciation will also fall into a somewhat Indonesian lilt, even though I don't speak more than 20 words of it, just because of the way my mom speaks.

In a more professional environment like school, I speak pretty normally.

Around friends, I speak the same way they do--no accent or anything, but any sort of vernacular expression or slang term definitely gets thrown around that would never be acceptable in the face of my mom or a college professor.

Even in FFXI, if I'm talking to friends who don't really care about grammar, I'll lose the caps when using proper nouns or at the beginning of sentences, and will even use run-on sentences.

So, I'd say you pick things up from wherever you socialize, and you never stick to just one, but rather adapt to the environment you're in.

I like how you responded to him instead of my equally long post on page 2. You are incorrect in that you are skewing ***and magnifying it. You are up playing it too much and I've yet to see any hard evidence supporting any negative effects, ESPECIALLY addictiveness.

I DID quit cold turkey 3 years ago and haven't smoked since then because my friend stopped selling it and I wasn't addicted so I didn't go find another dealer. I just blew your ***out of the water, and I bet you won't even respond, BUT if you do, once again, go read my 2nd post on PAGE 2 before you even respond to this post IF you even do.

I quit cold turkey too but I wasnt far along using it, I was more addicted to the meds my docs had me in o.o'

but I still have friends that are TRYING to still quit and can't, I think it's more of a mental addiction than anything. :/ I did feel some anxiety for it after quitting, but i didn't give in to it, like other people do all the time.

It put me in a delusional state if anything, I feel better with out it. so IMO weed is bad D:

I just saved a ton of money on my tetrahydrocannabinol by not smoking it.

You can't really judge it based off services, I've called/been called by so many foreign services with diff languages(asain, african, indian ect.) and they have all had horrible accents and as mad as they make me I've surprisingly yet to yell at them or treat them with disgust.

I will say though, yes, america is full of biggots, we just don't give a ***about ppl in general. No need to start this argument though, all nations are racist to some degree, the only thing we agree on is we all hate france and canada.

BTW, if that's you in your avatar and you weren't preggo, i'd be very, very nice to you if I saw you over here. I might even invite you over to my place.