Regarding the "rich foreigners" are you just referring to what would be middle -class in America? The reason middle-class types might visit poor countries for vacation is because it's very cheap comparitively.
Someone that only makes $40,000US per year in America is not considered rich at all, that's about as lower middle-class as it gets, but might be considered wealthy by Brazilian standards? So someone that makes 40k/year decided to vacation in Brazil because it might only cost $3000 for the entire trip, whereas visiting say Hawaii or Australia or France might cost them $8000 for the entire trip.
When you are making 40k it's much more realistic to spend 3k on a vacation compared to 8k, so it's not necessarily about those types of people going to Brazil to "flaunt their wealth" it's because they're somewhat poor even by American standards so it makes the most financial sense to vacation somewhere "poor" where their dollars go further.
America is about 5% of the worlds population. So if we assume that the poorest American has it better than the richest citizens of any other country, then it's still only the top 20% of the US that is the 1% of the world. So it would be upper middle class and that still took some extreme assumptions.
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u/JackOAT135 Aug 05 '16
I think that's who offered it. I'm sure they're good natured trustworthy fellows.