ghetto

gueto

Zona pobre de una ciudad donde suele vivir un determinado grupo social o étnico.

En inglés sencillo: A poor part of a city, often home to a particular social or ethnic group.

• He grew up in a ghetto.
• The city invested in housing in the ghetto.
• Residents wanted better schools and jobs in their ghetto.

Sinónimos: slum

Expresiones frecuentes: urban ghetto, live in a ghetto, poor ghetto

gueto

Zona de una ciudad donde la ley obligaba a vivir a los judíos, especialmente bajo el régimen nazi.

En inglés sencillo: A city area where Jewish people were forced by law to live, especially under Nazi rule.

• They were forced into a ghetto.
• Walls separated the ghetto from the rest of the city.
• The museum tells the stories of families imprisoned in the ghetto.

Expresiones frecuentes: Jewish ghetto, Warsaw ghetto, walled ghetto

criado en un gueto

Que ha crecido en un barrio pobre de una ciudad de Estados Unidos.

En inglés sencillo: Having grown up in a poor city area in the United States.

• He describes himself as a ghetto kid.
• Her ghetto upbringing shaped her view of the city.
• The novel follows a ghetto teenager through his first year at college.

Expresiones frecuentes: ghetto kid, ghetto background, ghetto upbringing