Upon completing the readings, the article that fascinated me the most was The Enclave, The Citadel, and the Ghetto authored by Peter Marcus from Columbia University. The word ghetto is often nonchalantly thrown around by those of my generation. It is not uncommon to hear one of my peers say, “That’s really ghetto” in reference to something that they deem of crappy quality. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t guilty of this “political incorrectness.” The word has also become synonymous of minority groups living in the projects.  Although this utilization of the word remains more true to the actual meaning of the word, it still has a negative connotation.  According to Marcus, a ghetto is a spatially concentrated area used to seperate and to limit a particular involuntarily defined population group held to be and treated as, inferior by the dominant society. In any case, this piece illustrated that the word ghetto has a more significant meaning that certain groups of people might find offensive given the misused context.