What happened to you, Thailand?

[StreetCowboy]

On 6/29/2024 at 2:58 PM, johnnybangkok said:

That's not what it means at all. Or at least to the VAST majority of English speakers. 

ghet·to - a poor urban area occupied primarily by a minority group or groups.

You are right.  But in English, we sometimes speak figuratively, saying something IS something, when we could equally use a metaphor, saying it was LIKE something, but we don’t literally mean that Bangna is a poor, Jewish neighbourhood, rather it is a district where Westerners find it easier to live, and maybe Thais prefer them to live there.