Good point. Actually I think the strict definition of &quot;middle class&quot; should be simply the average in a certain country.<p>However, for a lot of people including myself, &quot;middle class&quot; means people who own at least a little bit of wealth in the form of savings, enough to be able to survive for six months or a year without a job while not needing to cut costs on anything.<p>This of course is not the reality for maybe 95% of Mexican Citizens who live in perpetual debt with the banks and would go completely bankrupt if they ever stop working for as little as one month or maybe two.<p>I live here and believe me, there is not such a thing as a &quot;burgeoning middle class&quot; in Mexico; in fact, such claims sound like the typical BS politicians try to sell to the people.