Is ghetto a social mind set to describe a way of life among those that grew up in poverty stricken areas?

If the christian faith supports that Jesus Christ came to bring the good news to the poor, than why should someone get offended if you are delivered from the “ghetto”?

You can take a person out of the country, but can you take the country out of the person?

What is liberation?

Let’s bury the word ghetto, and we don’t have to worry about it’s origin, being that we obviously don’t have an origin for the word and ignorance is no excuse for not knowing that freedom is available for all.

Professor Liberman wrote “Contemporaries of the first ghetto in Venice failed to associate ghetto with borghetto.” The complex sentence has these propositions:
1. why the contemporaries
2. of the first ghetto in Venice
3. failed to associate ghetto with borghetto
4. invented Hebrew etymologies for it.

The Venice Jewish quarter that we now call “il ghetto” was not the first such Jewish precinct, in Venice or anywhere else. The 1516 sequestration of Jews on the Venice island written variously Geto ~ Gheto ~ Ghetto was not the first “ghettoization”. Sequestratiom of Jews and others is common around the world over the centuries. Areas predominantly inhabited by Jews at other times had gentile inhabitants, too. Many foreigners in Venice were segregated (Lucchesi, Lombards, Tuscans, Germans, Muslims). Before 1516 Jews lived on various islands of Venice. The Senate considered segregating Jews on the islands Giudecca (Venetian Zoega) and Murano, but the plans fell through.
It was not in 1516 in Venice, to explain the Venetian island toponym Ghetto, that a Hebrew folk etymology ghet ‘divorce decree’ was invoked by Jewish notaries. It was in Rome, a full century later, and had to do, not with Venice, but with a foul-smelling Roman street (even in the mid 1800s), called Ghetto. In the papal bull Nimis Absurdum (‘enough’s enough’) issued by Paul IV in 1555, the ecclesiastical Latin word used by the pope’s amanuenses was vicus ‘street, vici ‘streets’, not mock-Latin ghectus. In a second papal bull Dudum a felicis (‘it’s about time’), not Venice’s, but the name of Rome’s slum street Ghetto was written ghectus, just as scribes wrote the Italian word tutti ‘all’ as tucti, Matteo as Macthaeo; they wrote quattro ’4′ as quactro.
In Venice every street is an island, every island a street. A street is a cluster of houses. Italian maps label settlements “case di ‘houses of X”. The people call “the mean streets” a “ghetto”. Northeastern and central Italy have scores of ghetti. The Italian Post Office has postal codes/ZIP Codes for them, CAP (Codice Avviamento Postale).
“Contemporaries of the first ghetto in Venice failed to associate ghetto with borghetto.” —What evidence.is there that they didn’t? Association of the words ghetto and borghetto is inescapable in Italian Sprachgefühl.
Aphesis: for anyone knowing Venetian and Tuscan the connection is unavoidable. Compare in English ’shrooms for mushrooms, drawing room, to which English gentlemen withdrew to smoke, leaving their ladies to their amusements; mend for amend/emend, cute for acute, pert for apert (note the homonymy of the indefinite article (a) and prefixes) Aphesis flourishes in Itralian (and Venetian). In English aAnyone can trace the source of ’puter (my grandson’s creation). Or ’buke (Southern Baptist for rebuke). In the Veneto America is Merica; l’arena is la rena A satirical paper features the head of a reindeer, La Renna, in a logo pun on L’Arena di Verona, adverting to Verona’s famous Roman amphitheater and the major local newspaper.

The source of ghetto is all over the map of Italy, toponomastically and in figurative language.

It appeared in the bible and well before the
The 17 or 16 century

anyhow, gr8 article.. 10x

In fact, no one knows who William Shakespeare met during his “Ten Lost Years.” Many suggest he traveled widely during this time (unlikely, in my mind).

Knowing that the real writer of Shakespearian plays and sonnets was Henry Neville changes everything. In fact, Henry Neville was very well traveled and would have met people of many ethnic backgrounds on the continent.

My gut feeling is that if JRR Tolkien were alive today, he could sort out the origin of “ghetto.”