of Brazilians, but always in the background they're thinking, will this last?  So what you have now in Brazil is incredible expansion of the middle class.  I'm going to give you one sort of figure.  Ten years ago, 15 years ago, two-thirds of all Brazilians were at the poverty line or below, two-thirds. Today, that number is one-third.  That means that two-thirds of all Brazilians are in the middle class or above, that's a phenomenal shift within a decade.For the first time in Brazil you have many, many millions of people who have access to credit, buying their first car, their first apartment.  But there is this sort of lingering doubt among many Brazilians, okay is this a bubble? Is this rollercoaster we've been on much of the twentieth century where we experience these spurts of growth and then crash.  I actually think that Brazil's reached a moment of self-sustained growth. That there are going to be ups and downs just as there are in any developed economy but it's not going to be the rollercoaster of the past.Brazil is, in some ways, one of the most blessed countries on earth.  Here's an enormous place of continental dimensions with nearly 200 million people, no serious religious or sectarian divisions, essentially one language. The only serious division within the country is socio-economic and that's something you can work on, you can do something about.  So unlike all the other big countries in the world; India, China, United States, Russia, you don't