The survey results suggest that Brazil will continue to have to strike a difficult balance between budget cutting and other policies to promote economic growth and addressing social issues. While outsiders may be uncomfortable with the way conflicting objectives slow the process of reform, the pressures appear to derive from views that are not that different from their own. Some respondents offered comments. These quotes are included without identification and with their authors' permission. This mentality was inherited from colonial times.
Brazilian society is very corrupt and stratified.
Each class defends very specific and sometimes conflicting interests, dismissing what is best for the country as a whole. Brazilians are not North Americans of Europeans but have their own way of doing business. At the present only the North American business model appears to have found the truth of everything but history shows that economic fads are coming and going pretty rapidly. The following is the questionnaire with the percentages responding filled in for each question. Distributions are given for all respondents, Brazilians and non-Brazilians.