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Where [[Fantastic Racism]] meets [[Urban Segregation]]. The
Ghettoes are very much a case of [[Truth in Television]]: the term "Ghetto" originally referred to the district in [[City State Era]] Venice where the Jews were supposed to live. Then, there was [[Nazi Germany|that matter between 1939 and 1944]]... And as a form of racial segregation, ghettos still exist to this day, therefore the topic is usually approached with caution in fiction, usually from the [[Fantastic Racism]] angle. Ironically, it has been asserted that the original Jewish ''(bor)ghettos'' were privileges, designed to protect Jews from unfriendly Gentile citizens, provided by the local rulers, including walls and locked gates which [[Gone Horribly Wrong|were bitterly resented by the locals]].
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== Comics ==
* In ''[[Strontium Dog]]'', [[Mutants|mutant]] populations in [[Crapsack World|New Britain]] are not allowed to hold any jobs (apart from bounty hunting) or live amongst normal humans, instead living in their own trashed ghettos, the most prominent one located in Milton Keynes.
* This shows up during [[Alan Moore]]'s run on ''[[Wild CATS]]'', when the team visits Khera, where it turns out the Kherubim-Daemonite war ended centuries ago everywhere except Earth. Khera is ruled by the wealthy and technologically advanced Kherubim while the planet's indigenous population, a race of [[Sizeshifter
* The [[X-Men]] family of books have given us multiple takes on the idea of a mutant ghetto, from concentration camps ([http://marvel.wikia.com/Neverland Neverland]), to reservations (the grounds of Xavier's school during the ''[http://marvel.wikia.com/198 198]'' series), to isolationist compounds ([http://marvel.wikia.com/198 Utopia]), to ethnic neighborhoods ([http://marvel.wikia.com/Mutant_Town Mutant Town/District X]), to national "homelands" ([http://marvel.wikia.com/Genosha Genosha]).
* [[Marvel Comics]] also has Attilan, where pretty much every [[The Inhumans|Inhuman]] on Earth lived (until it moved to the moon), and Wundagore Mountain, home of a society of humanoid animals.
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== Film - Animated ==
* The plot of the first ''[[Shrek]]'' movie was basically driven by the local [[Evil Prince]] turning Shrek's swamp-home into a ghetto for fairy-tale creatures and the like, and Shrek objecting rather violently to this. (Not because he's got something about the ghettoization,
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