Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...He’s lived in the ghetto, he’s eaten from a silver spoon, he’s been through war, he’s been through everything,” Alon said...
...actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving.' MISHA DEFONSECA, Belgian writer, apologizing after her best-selling memoir of surviving the Holocaust was revealed to be fake. She isn't Jewish and was never in the Warsaw ghetto, as she had claimed...
...Culture will influence the way blacks do politics.” However, not everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, said that hip hop has lost its political potential due to its commercialization. “The ghetto has become a product; something to be consumed, something to be worn,” she said, adding that hip hop has become an enterprise that exploits its environment. Rose also said that hip hop—while it is not the cause of homophobia and misogyny—aids...
...That left the nation's pundits gazing on in astonishment at the possibility the divided UMP might still manage to lose this so-called "ghetto of the rich". Because if Neuilly isn't safe for the UMP, no place is. Perched on the capital's western perimeter, with the leafy, sprawling Bois de Boulogne on its southern flank, Neuilly is a kind of Parisian Upper East Side: a quick commute to downtown offices, and a quiet residential enclave whose location gives residents a jump start on the Friday rush to Normandy beach homes. It was here, among the French film...
...though British Islam is known as a religion of protest for alienated youths, it has also been the catalyst of a powerful work ethic. Islam in Britain, writes sociologist Tariq Modood, has been "finely poised between a religion of the ghetto and a religion of social mobility." For Farhan Qureshi, it was watching Woody Allen's films that inspired him to become a movie director. But Islam provided practical and spiritual spurs to success. Waking up on cold English winter mornings to perform Fajr, the dawn prayer, gave him an extra half-hour to write before setting...