And since the Brazilian immigration is a more heavily middle class phenomenon and there are relatively fewer percentage-wise people of color who are middle class, I think that's one of the reasons why the migration is lighter than the country as a whole.

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Occupy Wall Street taught many middle-class white people what poor people and people of color had already known.

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Does it allow that a relative handful of people of color will overcome the odds and find middle-class success comparable to the median white family or even better?

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