In truth, most people that reside in the places called ghettos are involved in inner & outer conflict. The struggles to attain happiness are conflicted in many ways, but the goals are always for prosperity, unified joy, and harmony. These expressions are expressed in the committed arts from the people in the condition. Therefore, the dynamics explaining the people & many solutions are also expressed. Styles of music have expressed problems in the past, but only one art form seems to express problems and solutions through the variations of styles within it. The easiest way to understand those themes and places of living seems to come from hip-hop music. In the 1st volume of this book I briefly mentioned an organization called "The Temple of Hip-Hop", and the principles created from it. These principles fully apply in dynamic forms for the understanding of most of humanity. I will try to explain why and how.
A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic or religious background are united in a given low condition area, voluntarily or involuntarily, for mild or strict seclusion..The term now commonly labels any poverty-stricken urban area. The U.S. mobile home parks, farm labor housing, and Indian reservations indicate the poorest areas in the U.S. In the United States, urban neighborhoods where Latino immigrants settled in the late 20th century called barrios, are ghettos, because most immigrants form a culturally isolated society and choose to remain there or associate with their own group as a part of cultural preservation. "Ghetto" is also used figuratively to indicate geographic areas with a concentration of any type of persons suffering from poverty. The term is also used to describe an item or an action as cheap or flimsy. Some consider this use of language to be an offensive misapplication.
As perfectly exemplified by the artist known as "Ice Cube"- in the music video "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", those called the poor minorities, and those that are "true life expressing artists" are often scapegoated/ blamed for the problems designed by the oppressive elements of the society. No current music art has as equal amout of social motivation and/or awareness expression impacts around the world as Hip Hop. This is partially also due to the positive contributions of artists named KRS-One, Eric B.& Rakim, Public Enemy, Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, Goodie Mob, Queen Latifah, and others.Art tends to be the strongest motivational force among all of humanity for awareness of local to international ills, and creative stimulation to solve personal and social problems.
Many people in the U.S. and Europe strongly dislike the term ghetto, believing it to have racist, elitist and culturally insensitive overtones, and the mention of such a word to describe a working-class ethnic community is considered a generalization or an insult. Many social workers and community leaders suggest alternative words to describe these areas like economically disadvantaged areas. Post-colonial places that did succumb to white supremacy influences, have been disrupted from their pre-colonial advanced societies to enhanced disorganization, low or disallowed self-sustenance, and poor trade practices, now called underdeveloped. This has also happened in Europe and western Asia.This is called the third world and marked by a number of common traits; distorted and highly dependent economies devoted to producing primary products for the developed world and to provide markets for their finished goods; traditional, rural social structures; high population growth; and widespread poverty. Nevertheless, the third world is sharply differentiated, for it includes countries on various levels of economic development. And despite the poverty of the countryside and the urban shantytowns, the ruling elites of most third world countries are wealthy.
This combination of conditions in Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America are linked to the absorption of the third world into the international capitalist economy, by way of conquest or indirect domination. The main economic consequence of having domination-based culture(s) in control of a world market is that they perpetuate dominance to there new generations via religious doctrine and education, and make the victims believe in a servitude and/or recessive place in society. By setting up throughout the third world sub-economies linked to the West, and by introducing other modern institutions, industrial capitalism disrupted traditional economies and, indeed, societies. This disruption led to the current status of regional underdevelopment common worldwide. This is also very well displayed in the music video by a group called "The Geto Boy's"