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		TheSpiceIsLife on Sept 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where you are born is more predictive of your futu... Rural poverty is definitely poverty. The term rural ghetto can be used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_ghetto

keiferski on Sept 17, 2019 [–]

> Rural poverty is definitely poverty.

I didn't say that rural poverty isn't poverty. I'm simply saying that the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.

TheSpiceIsLife on Sept 17, 2019 | [–]

”there is no such thing as a rural ghetto.”

”the word "ghetto" almost always refers to an urban context.”

These are not the same thing.

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