Assorted Comments

[Jonathan Lighter]

I haven't googled, but Europe seems to accommodate slums as well: "The slums of London - Glasgow - Marseilles - Cadiz - Moscow - etc."  Also Australia: "Yhe slums of Sydney."

  So, everywhere but the U.S.

  JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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On Tue, 22 May 2007, Erik Hoover wrote:

> From news reports, the slums all seem to be in the major cities of
> Central and South America now.

No, they're in Africa and Asia as well. "Slums of Nairobi," for example,
gets 234 hits from the last two years in LexisNexis.

Fred Shapiro


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