"Parallel societies"

From	occam <occam@nowhere.nix>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	"Parallel societies"
Date	2026-06-27 08:00 +0200
Message-ID	<na976vFrf5dU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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I came across this term 'parallel society' to describe the US term
'ghetto' while watching a documentary about Denmark. Apparently the term
was coined in the 1990s by sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer, hence it's a
euphemism with European origins, for a change.

According to Wiki:

"Denmark has used the term to define social housing estates where at
least half the residents are from "non-Western" countries, as well as
other factors such as high crime and unemployment rates."

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"Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-27 08:00 +0200
  Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 11:07 +1000
    Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 06:11 +0100
      Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:42 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-28 11:01 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-28 21:08 +1000
        Re: "Parallel societies" occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-28 13:41 +0200
          Re: "Parallel societies" Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-29 10:14 +1000
            Re: "Parallel societies" wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-06-29 00:55 +0000
            Re: "Parallel societies" athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-29 15:04 +0000
        Re: "Parallel societies" Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-28 14:46 +0100
    Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 10:40 +0200
      Re: "Parallel societies" liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-28 15:32 +0100
        Re: "Parallel societies" Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-28 17:24 +0200

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