A tenement is a type of housing where many families live in independent units that are located around a common patio or hallway.
Neighborhood is the condition of a neighbor (one who lives with other people in the same building or city, or one who is close to something else). The term came into our language from the Latin word vicinĭtas .
For example: “The new tenant showed off his good neighborliness and invited everyone to eat pizza at his house,” “There are basic rules of neighborliness that you have to respect,” “We must take advantage of the neighborliness of both nations.”
The neighborhood as a type of housing
In some countries , a type of housing in which many people or families with limited economic resources live, in independent units , is called a neighborhood. They generally consist of several houses located around a patio or linked by common corridors .
Depending on the region, the neighborhood can also be named as a conventillo , tenement or barracks , among other names: “We have not had electricity in the neighborhood for two days,” “A fire in a central neighborhood left three people dead,” “I would like to leave this neighborhood, but I don't have money.”
As is often the case, in some cases it is not so much the reality that exists in a neighborhood that is negative, but rather the discrimination that its members must face when they go out into the streets. Poverty causes empathy and compassion in many people, but it also awakens feelings of rejection .
The neighborhood is also known as tenement or conventillo.
«El Chavo del 8»
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 protagonist is El Chavo (played by Gómez Bolaños ), an orphan boy who lives in apartment 8 (although he is usually seen in a barrel). Doña Florinda and her son, Quico ; Don Ramón and his daughter, La Chilindrina ; and Doña Clotilde also live in this neighborhood.
In the vicinity of Chavo, all kinds of crazy situations take place, which make the most of the crazy traits of the characters . First is the protagonist's home: it is a barrel, although Chavo refers to it as apartment number 8 . On the other hand is Don Ramón , a lazy and profiteering man, who does not seem to have any intention of working to get money, and this leads him to avoid his landlord by all means every time he goes to collect the rent .
La Chilindrina is one of the most endearing characters in the series, although she is also the most brazen and poisonous. Given his father's teachings, he knows how to deceive and manipulate people to achieve his goals with as little effort as possible . In general, Chilindrina makes the other children in the neighborhood angry with each other, as she confronts them to gain power, very 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 "rabble" in almost every episode.
The term neighborhood in different expressions
The expression half-neighborhood refers to a right that a stranger can 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 behaves badly , on the other hand, they annoy or harm their neighbors; If, instead of a person, it is a thing, then it is harmful to whatever is nearby.
Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio , finally, is the name of a Mexican rock band founded in 1985 .