The origin of "ghetto" is irrelevant...
From… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city where people of a particular race, religion and/or minority group live closely together and apart from other people, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental, or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people.
As an example: I am sure Jules could not afford to live in Hawaii if it wasn’t for the relatively low cost of its ghettos in the southern side of the island of Hawaii.
And while Jules clutches her faux pearls in feigned disgust (as she so often does) with our simple, honest, words, yes her trashy use of the English language and endless demands of her own superiority above all others does suggest a certain familiarity with trailer parks.
Go ahead Jules post your made up disgust, show us again how right we all are about you.
A lot of Puna, and Kau are ghettos. It is a fact. They were built to be ghettos, and they remain ghettos. Take any metric you want, the mean, the average, the whatever income level, education level, availability of jobs, the limited goals its citizens have, how many single parents there are, the amount of health concerns, number of people with mental health conditions, percentage of the population on welfare, amount of crime.. it don’t matter. In every single one Puna is below, and in many case far below, the same social economic standards found in most other communities in Hawaii. Because it is cheap, because that’s where those that can’t afford to live elsewhere go, because it's substandard, because it's a ghetto. And, for those that live here, thank god it is, otherwise most of them could not afford to live in Hawaii, at all.
I am not saying it is not a nice ghetto. Sheesh as far as ghettos go it’s paradise. But it's still a ghetto. And all your clutching, and feigning, and otherwise showing everyone over and over who you really are, aint gonna change it one bit.
From… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city where people of a particular race, religion and/or minority group live closely together and apart from other people, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental, or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world, each with their own names, classifications, and groupings of people.
As an example: I am sure Jules could not afford to live in Hawaii if it wasn’t for the relatively low cost of its ghettos in the southern side of the island of Hawaii.
And while Jules clutches her faux pearls in feigned disgust (as she so often does) with our simple, honest, words, yes her trashy use of the English language and endless demands of her own superiority above all others does suggest a certain familiarity with trailer parks.
Go ahead Jules post your made up disgust, show us again how right we all are about you.
A lot of Puna, and Kau are ghettos. It is a fact. They were built to be ghettos, and they remain ghettos. Take any metric you want, the mean, the average, the whatever income level, education level, availability of jobs, the limited goals its citizens have, how many single parents there are, the amount of health concerns, number of people with mental health conditions, percentage of the population on welfare, amount of crime.. it don’t matter. In every single one Puna is below, and in many case far below, the same social economic standards found in most other communities in Hawaii. Because it is cheap, because that’s where those that can’t afford to live elsewhere go, because it's substandard, because it's a ghetto. And, for those that live here, thank god it is, otherwise most of them could not afford to live in Hawaii, at all.
I am not saying it is not a nice ghetto. Sheesh as far as ghettos go it’s paradise. But it's still a ghetto. And all your clutching, and feigning, and otherwise showing everyone over and over who you really are, aint gonna change it one bit.