American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - v. To set apart in or as if in a ghetto; isolate. - v.
To make into or similar to a ghetto: "He left a city ghettoized
and strangled by highways and the auto” ( New York). - v.
transitive To put someone in a ghetto, or to isolate as if in a
ghetto. - v. transitive To make a place into a ghetto, or to add
the characteristics of a ghetto. GNU Webster's 1913 - v. to form
into a ghetto; to isolate (people) as though into a ghetto. - v.
put in a ghetto “Where do you get the term ghettoize as you use
it above?” “The expats who don't reset their clock and don't
learn more than a little bit of tourist Spanish, automatically
"ghettoize" themselves.” “Zarcero, The expats who don't reset
their clock and don't learn more than a little bit of tourist
Spanish, automatically "ghettoize" themselves.” “The expats in
San Miguel, like Mexicans who move to the U.S., often
voluntarily "ghettoize" themselves by looking for the familiar.”
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