barrio



Barrrio

Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood. The word has come into use in English mostly through the large Hispanic populations on both coasts of the United States. These barrios are further subdivided into sectors. More commonly, in the United States barrios refer to lower class neighborgoods with largely Spanish speaking residents, basically the Latino equivalent to a ghetto. The word often implies that the poverty level is high in such a neighborgood, but this inference is not universal. There are not as many barrios as there used to be, but there are still some around

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