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The ghetto in Venice was an area where Jews were required to live by law. By extension it has come to mean a part of a city in which people of a certain race are confined by law, custom or choice.

More generally, a part of a city, especially a densely populated inner city area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures or hardships.

In modern usage it has connotations of isolation (from mainstream life) and of deprivation.

(The word "ghetto" actually comes from the word "getto" or "ghetto", which means foundry in the Venetian dialect, and it was the name of the island where Jews had to live in Venice. An alternative etymology is from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo 'borough').
In modern times, it usually implies a poorer or lower class neighborhood in a city. Ghettos were also the name of blocks that the Nazis limited the Jews to living in at the start of the Holocaust.
Perhaps you mean "ghetto". Notwithstanding its use in America, the word is of Italian origin, hence the spelling. "Getto" in Italian would be pronounced "jetto". See the related question.

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