NEIGHBORHOOD

The Latin word vicinĭtas came to Castilian as a neighborhood . The concept refers to the condition of neighbor (one who lives with other people in the same building or city, or that which is close to something else). For example: "The new tenant showed his good neighborliness and invited everyone to eat pizza at his house" , "There are basic neighborhood rules that you have to respect" , "We must take advantage of the neighborhood of both nations" .

In some countries , a type of housing is called neighborhood in which many people or families with limited economic resources live in independent units . They generally consist of several houses located around a courtyard or linked by common corridors . According to the region, the neighborhood can also be named as tenement , leasehold or barracks , among other names: "Two days we do not have electricity in the neighborhood ago" , "A fire in a central neighborhood left a toll of three dead" ,"I would like to leave this neighborhood, but I have no money . "

As is often the case, in some cases the reality of a neighborhood is not so negative but rather the discrimination that its members must face when they go out. Poverty causes empathy and compassion in many people, but it also arouses feelings of rejection .

The expression middle neighborhood refers to a right that an outsider may acquire to use the pasture of a town for his own livestock; To do this, you must pay fifty percent of the contributions. When someone makes a bad neighborhood , on the other hand, he annoys or harms his neighbor; If, instead of a person, it is a thing, then it is harmful to what is nearby.

The neighborhoods became world famous thanks to “El Chavo del 8” , a Mexican television series created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños in 1971 . In the story , the main character is El Chavo (played by Gómez Bolaños ), an orphan boy who lives in department 8 (although he is usually seen in a barrel). Doña Florinda and her son, Quico , Don Ramón and her daughter, La Chilindrina , and Doña Clotilde also live in this neighborhood.

All kinds of crazy situations take place in the neighborhood of Chavo, which make the most of the crazy features of the characters . In the first place is the main character's house: it is a barrel, although Chavo refers to it as apartment number 8. On the other hand there is Don Ramón, a lazy and profitable man, who does not seem to have any intention of working for get money, and this leads him to avoid by all means his landlord every time he is going to collect the rent .

La Chilindrina is one of the most endearing characters in the series, although she is also the most brash and poisonous. Given the teachings of his father, he knows how to deceive and manipulate people to achieve his goals with the least possible effort . In general, the Chilindrina makes the other children in the neighborhood angry with each other, since she confronts them to gain power, much in the style of the Latin maxim "divide and conquer."

Doña Florinda, for her part, is a woman who does not accept her social status and the economic class to which she belongs, but rather seems to live in a parallel dimension; however, he does treat the other members of the neighborhood as uneducated beings, and he instills the same in Quico, who calls Don Ramón a "rabble" in almost every episode.

Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio , finally, is the name of a Mexican rock band founded in 1985 .