How to pronounce“slum”in English
Also, there's a, there's a cultural; there's a cultural lens through how a director from one country, or people from one country, may see, the, reality of another country, like
"Slum Dog", for instance. It was very well received, say in the United States, but not so much in India because Indians felt, "That's not us," you know? "That's not how it is.
That's a stereotype." So, that happens a lot as well because it is someone from another culture taking on another situation, and another country; often there will be that discrepancy.
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Definitions of “slum”
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
“Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]”
Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.
“The lower the price of slum the better it is for the operator who can either give more of it out or build up the size of his big prizes. It is the big prizes that bring the play, even though the winner has to be satisfied with a piece of slum for his efforts.”
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
“The princess goes slumming.”
To saunter about in a disreputable manner.
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