The Ghetto Research Paper

“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” (Elie Wiesel). Since the time of the Holocaust, ghettos have been used to segregate minorities from the rest of society. They are unsanitary and dangerous areas, set up in the dregs of society. Modern ghettos are very similar to those that were established during the Holocaust, however they still have their differences. Ghettos were formed as isolated areas for “undesirable” people out of fear, and persist today because that fear of the minority continues constantly.
Fear within the German people was the primary factor that led to the establishment of the Jewish …show more content…
However, they are a definitely a problem that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. The best way to develop a solution for this problem is to first address the main factors that contribute to the formation of ghettos. The article Ghetto discussed the issues relating to immigration and ghettos by stating that, “The term ghetto has come to apply to any urban area exclusively settled by a minority group...immigrant groups and blacks have been compelled to live in ghettos, not so much by legal devices as by economic and social pressures.” Immigrants are not easily welcomed into society, so they form their own neighborhoods, which eventually become ghettos. Therefore, to end the problems relating to ghettos, the first step is to solve the problem of immigration. A potential way to solve this immigration problem is to further and better integrate immigrants into society when they come to the United States. By making it easier to immigrate to the United States, immigrants have an easier time integrating into society. They could find homes more rapidly, which would allow them to get into schools earlier. By enrolling in schools earlier, immigrants will have the opportunity to be better educated sooner and therefore, get jobs easier. The film, Crips and Bloods: Made in America mentioned that ghettos are communities formed to hold threatening and dangerous-seeming people away from everyone else. This particular aspect of the ghetto …show more content…
They were created out of fear of “co-existing” with these inferior people. Ghettos were and continue to be very dangerous and poor neighborhoods that need to be dissolved. Modern ghettos are a serious problem in society. They create more economic and social struggles within our society. Therefore, ghettos are a problem that need to be solved right away if we want to keep our nation from collapsing. The original goal of modern ghettos was to eliminate this existing fear of the minority by separating them from the rest of the population. This goal however was futile, because instead of lessening the existing fear, more fear was harvested by ghettos. People living inside and out of the ghettos had increasing levels of fear. As more segregation was implemented, more prejudices were developed. Police would be more brutal and cruel to the minorities, which would in turn make the general population outside the ghettos more afraid of those inside the ghettos. This would cause them to separate more, which just continued this vicious cycle of fear. The ghettos were formed out of fear and still exist today out of fear. The only way to eliminate this problem is to stop this