Ghettos and Ethnic Enclaves

Louis Wirth and Ceri Peach wrote about their ideas about Ghettos and Enclaves. Many different terms are strung to ghettos and enclaves. We have terms like assimilation and melting pot. An enclave is a certain amount of people living in one area, but they are not the majority. Assimilation is a process of socialization. It is when an individual or a group of people adopt some or all aspects of a dominant culture such as religion, language, norms, and values. A lot of different ethnicities come together in assimilation. Melting Pot is a way where different people of different cultures, races, and religions are combined to develop a multi-ethnic society. The term is used to describe societies experiencing immigration from many different countries. Overtime these immigrants will assimilate into the population and will lose any cultural identity that they had.
Believe it or not, the first 'ghetto people" were Jewish people back in World War II. Wirth looks at the ghetto as being tied to immigration. This following link will help you to understand more information and history on the "Jewish Ghettos" http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
In today's world the thought is that in the inner-cities/ ghettos is where the non-American's live, the enclaves is where more American's live, and the suburbs is where the true American's live.
There are many differences between ghettos and enclaves. A ghetto is dually segregated which means most of the people are African-American and Puerto Rican. In an enclave it is dually diluted which means most of the minority do not live there, it represents a small fraction of the population. A ghetto is labeled negative and is a threat(having to do with crime). An enclave is positive. To live in the ghetto it is forced and real and in an enclave it is voluntary, symbolic, and touristic.