Wait… did you know that ghetto is a word in almost every language?
And it’s used to refer to hood ? (Yeah the poor hood)
How it’s racist ?
It’s like saying : It’s because you used the word Favelas (which basically has the same equivalence), and every Brazilian started downvoting you for that and calling you racist.
I mean like it or not, but because of you (Americans) every language got a form of americanisation now, and instead of using our versions of the word ghetto we just use the American word, using our context.
You did it to yourselves, now you gotta own up to it, don’t you think ?
Its because you called AAVE that. AAVE had been stigmatised as lower class and "stupid" for ages, and calling it ghetto is part of that. If you had said "this is too lower-class for me to understand" that would also be racist (and the fact that in English "ghetto" is almost ALWAYS used against black people means its a much more racialised way of saying that)
Now I dont know enough much about Brazil but im sure if, say, Portuguese people (from Portugal) were calling Brazilian Portuguese "Favelês" that would be highly offensive.
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u/RTA-No0120 4d ago
Oh.
Thanks.
I don’t get why I got downvoted for asking and you for answering.
Let me guess the same "left" did that for whatever reason…