A slum is more than just an area inhabited by poor people. This is special world, which is dominated by physical and social degradation. There are several prerequisites and reasons for this deterioration. We often hear the phrase "American Dream". But what is it? How many percent of emigrants are knocked out of poverty and move to normal areas, passing through the poverty line? How many hard workers are forced to wander through the criminogenic and dangerous areas of such a large and not always friendly America? Very often, emigrants from Brazil settle in the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods that are not marked on tourist maps. More than 27 million children in the US live below the poverty line. Everyone knows this musical genre like a rap, he come from the ghetto Songs about pain, violence, poverty, single mothers and hungry children. The younger generation has become hardened, they condemn the system that created such conditions, that built fences around their homes. Getting into the poorest areas of the richest cities in America, you can be horrified by what you see. Everything is too far from what is shown on TV screens.
New York. Lost souls
The same type of stone houses, broken lamps and dirty streets, that's what you can find in the modern American ghetto. These areas have been identified by special programs for the poor citizens of the country. Middle class after refugees appeared in the neighborhood, he began to disperse in a panic, as robberies, robberies and other crimes became more frequent. The idea of universal brotherhood was received with hostility and did not take root, but only aggravated relations between different classes population. 
Many people wonder how it is possible to live in constant fear in all my life. Every year, 125,000 schoolchildren from poor areas try heroin or cocaine. Most of these children have no future. Their destiny is participation in criminal showdowns, communication with the criminal world drug use and prostitution. There are very few who leave the ghetto and achieve a better life. Most do not even live to be 50 years old. The slums of Detroit: a look into the heart of America
If you want to see what happened to " american dream» in the era of globalization, it is worth looking north at Woodward Avenue. If the sidewalks and streets are empty, the people are preparing for a masquerade of ghosts. For white man the most terrible thing in such ghettos is the “devil's night”. Since so many houses are left to their fate, because so many of the middle class have moved out, every October 30th is accompanied by the appearance of roving gangs of black pyromaniacs who burn abandoned houses and go into darkness. 
Increasingly, such remote areas of the United States are sowing panic and fear in central cities supplying them with drugs, starting fights and outrages. Detroit is one of the most depressed areas in the US. Short Richmond. History of the ghetto
Small Southern City with a population of hardly more than 200,000 people, is called the Richmond Ghetto. This city has a unique culture and history, located in one of the largest states - Virginia. Communities such as Jackson Ward were once the heart of Richmond's black culture and have even been called the "Harlem of the South" at times. Jackson Ward was created strictly for black people, according to some, as a way to govern black residents. Outside of Jackson Ward there were little blacks settlements in the eastern part of the region. Around this time, people slowly begin to leave the old areas of the city, such as " north side» and parts « south side”, for new microdistricts of the city. This led to these communities eventually becoming predominantly black. It seems that all the people living in the ghetto are animals in a large cage, and when food gets into their cage, they will tear it to pieces. They are not always inveterate scum, just people with lost souls, people who have lost faith in a brighter future due to social inequality. voucher to better life can only become a successful musical career or show business. But, unfortunately, only a few are lucky. modern ghetto- This back side one of powerful states peace. Modern megacities are crowded with people, many of whom are forced to put up with bad environment, cramped living space, remoteness from the place of work and an unfavorable social situation. However, if the journey to the office takes more than two hours, and there are no treadmills and parks near your house, you should not be so upset, after all, you are lucky - there are many places in the world where living is not only inconvenient, but very dangerous. Here some areas conditions that are completely unsuitable for normal life.
1. Cité Soleil District, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The "City of the Sun" (this is how the name of the district is translated) is located on the outskirts of the capital of Haiti, the city of Port-au-Prince. Most of the buildings are slums and huts, in Cité Soleil poverty reigns and crime flourishes. The streets are drowning in mountains of sewage and garbage, there is no sewerage here, so the area has long become a hotbed dangerous diseases and viruses - average duration life here does not exceed 50 years.
The police try not to show up in Cite Soleil, so drug dealers and kidnappers run everything there. According to representatives of the Red Cross, the slums of the "City of the Sun" are the quintessence of all Haitian problems: rampant unemployment, low education, lack of public organizations and services, unsanitary conditions, rampant crime and armed violence - all this can be found in almost every corner of the archipelago, but it is in one of the districts of the capital that it manifests itself most clearly.
In an attempt to restore order in the slums, the UN in 2004 decided to introduce a limited military contingent into the Cité Soleil territory, the peacekeepers managed to largely defuse the situation, but some problems remained. For some time, the UN retained control over the area, but after devastating earthquake 2010 riots erupted with new force. Three thousand suicide bombers managed to escape on the sly from a prison located near Cité Soleil, and at present, gangs of armed scumbags still inspire fear in the peaceful local population.
2. Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio on the coast Atlantic Ocean, incredibly beautiful. Thousands of tourists come here to admire the statue of Christ the Redeemer, take part in colorful carnivals and sunbathe on the beaches of Copacabana. However, the city has another face, almost unfamiliar to idle tourists who love the Brazilian sun and cool mojitos: on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, there are vast favelas - disadvantaged areas, consisting mainly of squalid shacks and huts.
The notorious favela of Rocinha has long been a staging post for drug dealers who bring cocaine to Europe, and the close cooperation between corrupt government and the underworld has led to gang leaders here feeling at ease, living in abundance and even luxury.
Until recently, one of the most notorious and famous drug lords in Rio was Erismar Rodriguez Moreira, nicknamed Bem-Te-Vi (Bem-Te-Vi is an insectivorous bird found in Brazil). His accomplices committed many brutal murders, and Moreira's group was also known for the fact that its members had a passion for gold-plated firearms. In 2005, the intelligence services carried out a carefully designed operation to detain members of the gang, but as a result of the ensuing shootout, Moreira was killed.
In anticipation of summer Olympic Games 2016, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, the city authorities are doing their best to improve the situation in the favelas, and some positive changes have already taken place.
3. Detroit, Michigan, USA
Detroit, once former center automotive industry in the United States, is experiencing better times. It once bore the proud nickname of the "City of Motors", but now the streets and factories have fallen into disrepair: due to the reduction in production since 2000, about 25% of the population has left Detroit, many are selling their homes for pennies and leaving in search of a better life. . Stray dogs breed in abandoned dwellings - this is one of the main problems of Detroit. Tens of thousands of dogs, most of which are pit bulls, roam the streets, threatening all living things.
On July 19, 2013, the Detroit administration declared bankruptcy of the city and $19 billion in debt. public utilities. According to the FBI and the US Department of Justice, three areas of Detroit are on the list of the most criminal areas in the country.
4. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
A city located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua recent decades has become a battlefield between drug cartels and various criminal gangs. In 2009, Ciudad Juarez came out on top in the number of murders per capita - the level reached 130 violent deaths per 100,000 people. And this is only official statistics - in fact, the number of those killed is somewhat higher, since a significant part of them are buried in mass graves, and people are listed as missing.
Life in the city is especially dangerous for women: rape is quite common here, and in the last 20 years alone, hundreds of women have died in such incidents.
5. Medellin, Colombia
In the 1980s, during the time of the cartels of Pablo Escobar and his units, Medellin was the most cruel city peace - human life here it was a simple bargaining chip in the transactions of local "businessmen". In 1993, Escobar was killed with police resistance, and the crime rate decreased slightly: if in 1991 there were about 6,500 murders, then in 2009, 2,899 people became victims of bandits.
In addition to banal murders and robberies, other common "vacancies" at the local "labor exchange" are blackmail and kidnappings, which, however, do not differ too much from the first and second methods. As a rule, the scheme is quite simple: a group of armed people simply surrounds the tourist and offers to go to the ATM to withdraw the ransom from credit card, threatening otherwise to take away the victim in an unknown direction.
AT recent times due to the enmity between the two criminal gangs, the situation in the city has deteriorated significantly.
6. Brownsville area, Brooklyn, USA
Brooklyn, like the rest of New York City, has its underprivileged neighborhoods, but Brownsville stands out from the rest. Most of it consists of apartment buildings where people with low level prosperity. Due to tense social environment Brownsville has a much higher crime rate than the city average.
Most of the crime in the area is related to the drug trade. Of course, Brownville is much quieter now than it was in the 1980s and 1990s, but many transport companies still send their cars here only accompanied by armed guards. Poverty and lack of work have led some young people to literally punch their way to success with their fists, it is no coincidence that many famous boxers grew up in Brownsville, including Mike Tyson.
7. La Perla District, San Juan, Puerto Rico
The outskirts of the city of San Juan, now known as La Perla, were once inhabited mostly by butchers, with slaughterhouses and butcher shops on every corner. Now the slums have been chosen by the South American mafia, which uses them as a transshipment base when sending contraband and drugs to the United States.
Despite the extreme poverty of the locals, La Perla is quite beautiful with its beaches, colorful houses and wonderful nature. AT last years Puerto Rican drug cartels under scrutiny law enforcement and special services - every year there are hundreds of arrests of people involved in the drug business.
8. Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
After the collapse Soviet Union many fraternal republics had a hard time: production and the economy as a whole fell into decay, and in addition, many social contradictions. In some regions, tensions have reached an extremely high level, such as in the Ferghana Valley, which is located immediately in three former socialist republics- Tajik, Uzbek and Kyrgyz.
The depression between the two mountain ranges became a real cauldron in which several nationalities "boiled", and each of them, after the collapse of the USSR, actively defended their rights, including not in the most legal ways. The radical Islamic beliefs of some groups of the population and the sharp decline in living standards only added fuel to the fire: thousands of refugees fled from Fergana, unable to find their place in the changed political and social circumstances.
Even 20 years later, the Fergana Valley remains a battlefield between ethnic groups and the authorities. For example, on May 13, 2005, in clashes between law enforcement agencies and protesters against litigation according to official figures, 187 people died over members of criminal gangs. However, other sources report more than a thousand killed - presumably, many bodies were buried secretly to hide the true extent of the tragedy.
9. Kibera District, Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi was founded by the British as the headquarters railway, and soon the city became one of the centers African continent and remains so to this day. In spite of a large number of Europeans and tourists in Nairobi, in some areas white, as well as local residents, it is better not to appear, one of these criminal ghettos is Kibera.
The administration of Nairobi prefers not to interfere in the life of the inhabitants of the area, as a result of which Kibera has become a haven for various thugs and scammers, for example, electricity is not available to everyone, because attackers use most of it for their own purposes. There is no water supply and sewerage system, most of water is contaminated with typhoid and cholera bacteria, and the toilets are pits that serve latrine hundreds of residents.
About half of the able-bodied inhabitants of Kibera are unemployed, many women try to earn a living by prostitution, they are not stopped even by the growing number of sexual crimes from year to year.
10. Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, China
Kowloon long years served the Chinese as a military fort, and at the end of the 19th century, when the British rented Hong Kong, the settlement became largely autonomous, the residents were actually granted the right to self-government. During the period of the Japanese occupation of China, the population of the walled city increased significantly, and as of 1987, it was approximately 33 thousand people, despite the fact that they all lived on an area of about 0.026 km².
During years Kowloon was the real headquarters of the Triad, the most powerful Chinese crime syndicate, but the authorities turned a blind eye to this, because not only Chinese mafiosi, but also corrupt officials received considerable benefits from the existence of brothels, casinos and opium dens.
In the early 1990s, China finally decided to tackle this problem in earnest: the inhabitants of Kowloon were relocated to more prosperous areas, the slums were razed to the ground, preserving only a few historical buildings, and in 1995, a park of the same name was opened on the site of Kowloon.
A slum is more than just an area inhabited by poor people. This is a special world in which physical and social degradation prevails. There are several prerequisites and reasons for this deterioration. We often hear the phrase "American Dream". But what is it? How many percent of emigrants are knocked out of poverty and move to normal areas, passing through the poverty line? How many hard workers are forced to wander through the criminogenic and dangerous areas of such a large and not always friendly America?
Very often, emigrants from Brazil settle in the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods that are not marked on tourist maps. More than 27 million children in the US live below the poverty line. Everyone knows such a musical genre as RAP, it comes from the ghetto. Songs about pain, violence, poverty, single mothers and hungry children. The younger generation has become hardened, they condemn the system that created such conditions, that built fences around their homes.
Getting into the poorest areas of the richest cities in America, you can be horrified by what you see. Everything is too far from what is shown on TV screens.
New York. Lost souls
The same type of stone houses, broken lamps and dirty streets, that's what you can find in the modern American ghetto. These areas were allocated under special programs for low-income citizens of the country. The middle class, after refugees appeared in the neighborhood, began to disperse in a panic, as robberies, robberies and other crimes became more frequent. The idea of universal brotherhood was received with hostility and did not take root, but only aggravated relations between different classes of the population.
Many people wonder how you can live in constant fear for your life. Every year, 125,000 schoolchildren from poor areas try heroin or cocaine. Most of these children have no future. Their destiny is participation in criminal showdowns, communication with the criminal world, drug use and prostitution. There are very few who leave the ghetto and achieve a better life. Most do not even live to be 50 years old.
The slums of Detroit: a look into the heart of America
If you want to see what happened to the "American dream" in the age of globalization, look north on Woodward Avenue. If the sidewalks and streets are empty, the people are preparing for a masquerade of ghosts.
For a white person, the worst thing in such ghettos is the "night of the devil." Since so many houses are left to their fate, because so many of the middle class have moved out, every October 30th is accompanied by the appearance of roving gangs of black pyromaniacs who burn abandoned houses and go into darkness.
Increasingly, such remote areas of the United States are sowing panic and fear in the central cities, supplying them with drugs, starting fights and outrages. Detroit is one of the most depressed areas in the US.
Short Richmond. History of the ghetto
A small southern city with a population of hardly more than 200,000 people is called Richmond - a ghetto. This city has a unique culture and history, located in one of the largest states - Virginia.
Communities such as Jackson Ward were once the heart of Richmond's black culture and have even been called the "Harlem of the South" at times. Jackson Ward was created strictly for black people, according to some, as a way to govern black residents. Outside of Jackson Ward were small black communities in the eastern part of the area.
Around this time, people slowly begin to leave the old areas of the city, such as the "North Side" and parts of the "South Side", for the new neighborhoods of the city. This led to these communities eventually becoming predominantly black.
It seems that all the people living in the ghetto are animals in a large cage, and when food gets into their cage, they will tear it to pieces. They are not always inveterate scum, just people with lost souls, people who have lost faith in a brighter future due to social inequality. A ticket to a better life can only be a successful musical career or show business. But, unfortunately, only a few are lucky. The modern ghetto is the reverse side of one of the most powerful states in the world.
Houses made of cardboard, plywood, metal and boards. This is what the vast areas of the poor in Brazil look like, forming a dense ring around the cities. It is estimated that every second resident of Rio de Janeiro lives there. The inhabitants of these places often live off street trading. They sell everything they can, often it's drugs or own body. Tourist excursions to such places are usually supervised. Few people have the courage to explore the poor "at their own risk."
2. Manila, Philippines
More than 20% of Manila's residents live in slums, and this number is increasing every year. There is no need to look for such areas for a long time - most of Manila is such. And the most terrible are the quarters of the Navas region, where desperate people, not finding best place settled in the cemetery. Everywhere rot, garbage and fragments of corpses. You need to walk carefully so as not to end up in the gutter. The smell and atmosphere are terrible.
3. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya
The fame of the slums, located almost in the very center of the Kenyan capital, has long spread far beyond the borders of the country. An excursion to Kibera is the second tourist attraction, after the African safari, for which Kenya is famous. Hundreds of tourists come here and many celebrities known for their magazine covers. Do they understand the risks? According to statistics, more than 800 thousand people live in Kibera, of which 20% are HIV-infected. These are the largest slums in Africa.
4. Sultanbeyli in Istanbul, Turkey
In the middle of the 20th century, in the suburbs of Istanbul, it was decided to build a settlement for Turkish emigrants, which, over time, was transformed into a huge area for the poor. According to statistics, more than 250 thousand people live in Sultanbeyli today. The expansion of the slums may have been helped by Turkish legislation, according to which, if a house was built in one night, it can remain in its place even if a building permit has not been obtained.
5. Osaka, Japan
Japan appears to us modern country, and everything that happens there is considered from this point of view. However, even here there is a place that has become a cause for shame among local authorities. This is Kamagasaki, the largest illegal settlement in the country. rising sun. The poorest residents of Osaka live in this area. No one knows exactly how many there are, because most people live here without registration. It is not so easy to get here - many years ago the name of this place was removed from the maps. Since 1996, this place has been officially known as Airin.
6. Dharavi in Mumbai, India
More than 1 million people live in these largest slums in Asia. They are located in an area the size of London's Hyde Park. The world learned about this place after the appearance of the film "Slumdog Millionaire", which also failed to convey the true picture. It is frightening that such a huge settlement of the poor in Mumbai is located on the outskirts of the financial capital of India, next to the world of the rich. And only a wall separates them.
7. Petare in Caracas, Venezuela
Caracas is considered the most dangerous city in Latin America, and, at the same time, its largest slums. Here, every day, many homeless people try to survive, huddling in hastily glued "burrows" made of cardboard and rags. The situation is worst in the Petare area. For years, it was a world of underage murderers and thieves living in garbage heaps. Organized gangs have now invaded the area. Every day, at least a dozen inhabitants of Petare alone die there.
Do you think America is a country of a victorious civilization, culture and high technology? Do you think there are clean sidewalks and free wifi everywhere? Nothing like this! Having driven into some American towns, you can feel yourself in the country of not even a third, but some fourth world! So remember their names so that you don’t accidentally get there.
Camden, New Jersey
In 2012, Camden had one of the highest crime rates in the US, with 2,560 violent crimes per 100,000 residents. In addition, Camden has very high levels of pollution. environment associated primarily with the abundance of garbage and unresolved problem its export, as well as water pollution. Residents of the surrounding cities consider Camden a real hole.
East St. Louis, Illinois
East St. Louis is a real crime nest. 80 out of 1,000 inhabitants are involved in criminal activities every year, both as perpetrators and as victims. Police, firefighters and paramedics don't have time to rest - shootings happen daily in the city center, and other incidents don't even count here.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tourist centre famous city Yuga has long since recovered from the devastating Hurricane Katrina. But it is worth driving away from the center - and you will be surrounded by entire blocks of destroyed, neglected houses. Some of them are uninhabited, in others, however, life still continues, which frightens almost more than the ruins left behind.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memis itself is a quiet and tidy town. However, it has suburb 38106, named after its postal code, or, in our language, postal code. And it’s better not to get there for a decent person! Here is the cheapest real estate in the US - for $50,000 you can buy a great house. But even behind its walls you will never feel safe. Cheap housing has attracted many antisocial personalities from all over the country - and now crime thrives on the streets, drugs are sold on every corner, and most buildings, even residential ones, look a little better at home on the picture.
South Los Angeles
Once in the brilliant and rich city of millionaires, do not try to go to its southern part! It is, for the most part, a dangerous ghetto with all the relevant trappings, from trash on the streets to crime, drug dealing and gang warfare. For 15 years, the population of this area has halved and is about a quarter of a million people. By the way, at one time they tried to separate this part of the metropolis from Los Angeles, giving it the name South Central. Now he is remembered mainly by fans of the old black comedy "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Neighborhood", which very clearly depicts local customs.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The city is still home to the famous Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team, but many areas of Pittsburgh are now largely abandoned. Less than half of the houses are occupied here. This, of course, led to an increase in crime: empty neighborhoods simply attract criminals. After the closure of powerful steel mills decades ago, Pittsburgh never fully recovered.
Orlando, Florida
On the one hand, Orlando is famous for its world-famous Disneyland park. On the other hand, the Parramore area, a disadvantaged suburb infamous high level crime. About 20 thousand crimes against property are committed per year in Parramore and the surrounding area - robberies, arson, theft and so on. So, once in Orlando, it's better not to drive far from Disneyland.
Chicago, Illinois
After the Prohibition era with its gang wars, Chicago became a prosperous city. However, in recent years there has again been a sharp surge in street crime. Thus, 762 murders were registered here during the year, mostly committed with the help of firearms. The risk of being shot by criminals in Chicago today is higher than in criminal Guyana, a third world country known for its high level of crime.
Flint, Michigan
Flint was on the rise in the early twentieth century, when the American auto industry was actively developing. During the prosperity of the GM company, which placed its factories here, there were 200 thousand inhabitants in the city, all of them prosperous and employed. Now it's a different matter. At first, automobile enterprises began to close, the number of jobs decreased, and the city was struck by total unemployment. And then - a new scandal: Flint's plumbing system was poisoned with lead. As a result, now the city is practically empty.
Atlanta, Georgia
For half a century, Atlanta has consistently ranked in the top five cities in the United States in terms of crime. In recent years, the city authorities have been successfully fighting for security, but many suburban areas are still extremely disadvantaged. The number of crimes involving the use of firearms in Atlanta today is 17 per 100,000 residents. These figures correspond to such dangerous criminal countries as Panama.
Washington DC
Pro White House and its surroundings - not a word! But Washington is not only the quarters of government offices. In the usual outlying areas of the American capital, the level of crime and poverty corresponds, rather, to the cities of the third world. Suburbs such as Columbia Heights and Anacostia have a crime rate of 60 crimes per thousand inhabitants, and the infrastructure of these areas - from running water to garbage collection - is little better than in the outback Russian outback.
Las Vegas, Nevada
And again, let's make a reservation: this, of course, is not about the Strip with its brilliant casinos, but about residential areas of the city, of which there are plenty. Not so long ago, a building boom reigned in Las Vegas, but the exploding real estate bubble buried the dreams of many local residents of their own decent home. Many houses on the outskirts of Las Vegas are still empty or illegally occupied by squatters. The police increasingly have to go out to evict too raging illegal tenants. Many suburbs of Las Vegas look like ghost towns, and their happy future, to put it mildly, is in question.
Breezy Point, New York
Until October 2012, Breezy Point was a prosperous and wealthy suburb of New York. However, during Hurricane Sandy, more than 350 houses were destroyed in Breezy Point, and the infrastructure of the town was completely destroyed. The ensuing fires completed the picture of destruction. And today, former residents are in no hurry to return to the ruined Breezy Point, which is a real slum just an hour from Manhattan.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Things are not going well on the reservations. Of the 20 poorest counties in the country, half are Indian reservations. Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota- perhaps clearest example how Indian life is developing in the USA. The level of alcoholism and drug addiction is off scale here, the population almost without exception suffers from diabetes and diseases of cardio-vascular system and the unemployment rate reaches 80%. It is not surprising that the problem of Indian teenage gangs in this area is considered one of the most burning issues today.
Detroit, Michigan
The decline of the former automobile capital of the United States is a well-known problem, but few realize its magnitude. Today, many Detroiters are deprived of amenities that residents developed countries long taken for granted: access to clean drinking water, uninterrupted power supply, emergency medical care, decent schools… In recent years, the authorities of Detroit have managed to bring back to life almost the entire city center, but the rest of its parts remain as comfortable to live in as some war-torn African country.
