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In urban areas of Denmark officially designated as "ghettos", some residents feel stigmatized and excluded from mainstream society.
Denmark is the only country to formally classify certain residential zones as ghettos. An area fits into the category if more than half of its inhabitants originate from non-Western countries and it also matches certain other criteria, such as unemployment exceeding 40 percent.
"When journalists come here I want to talk about the good things, but they're not interested. They are interested in gangs, conflict and ghettos. It saddens me," said Salim El-Chahabi, a Palestinian who came to Denmark in 1999 and works as a youth job coordinator in the Copenhagen ghetto of Mjolnerparken.
"Only a few people create chaos, the rest of the inhabitants are good, polite family people. Unfortunately, a few people have ruined things for us."