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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
ghet·to ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gt)
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes
* A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
* An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
* Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: “trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).
Having recently looked for Assisted living homes for the past few years, no there is not a "single religion/culture retirement" place that I have found.
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Well, in the society i live in, these things DO exist.
For example, A Roman Catholic home is only obliged to take in a very few residents who are non-RC. This obligation is more than met in this potential development, it seems to me.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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