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“Barrios”/Hispanic Neighborhood
The “Barrio”; in the dictionary it is described as; “A chiefly Spanish-speaking community or neighborhood in a U. ... Having said that, the following is a reflection of what life is like in the barrios of any major city through the eyes of the people, in addition to my attempt of clarifying the perception of what the average person may belief why barrios are the way they are. ... You would think that living under these conditions would make for a hard living environment, and yes in some cases it is, but, from my experience by living in Mexican barrios; you often experience good, caring, humble people that are just in search for a way to get by in their day to day life. ... Moore of the book Homeboys describes how it appeared to be:
El Hoyo became a barrio inside an area of barrios. ... Today El Hoyo is still a conspicuously isolated area, cut off
from neighboring barrios by steep streets. ... ” (57) And El Hoyo was but only one of the barrios settle neatly in the middle along with a couple other barrios like Kern, and La Marianna Maravilla to name a few. ... As time went on conflict grew larger and larger between other barrios from outside Maravilla as well as barrios from inside. So imagine yourself living in such poverty and still having to deal with hoodlums who fought over who had it better within the barrios themselves by making various distinctions like whether or not you were from upper or lower class Maravilla territory. ...
Today, most barrios together with other high poverty neighborhoods share an interesting characteristic.
Approximate Word count = 1391
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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