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Using the term "ghetto" for predominantly-black neighborhoods is... one of those things black people can do that white people can't. This is less of a problem in other anglospheric countries, which don't have the history of oppression of and discrimination against black people, including segregation into specific neighborhoods and "white flight", that the United States has -- so words like "ghetto blaster" have less bite abroad than they do here.


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