Well, I will you an example of it happening to the normal populace. A girl from the campo that my wife taught in high school, lived with a distant relative where she cleaned, cooked, and went to school. She was bright but not super intelligent but she was very good with kids so my wife told her she would hire her as a teachers assistant as long as she was going to school to become a teacher. She got pregnant at 18, and had Nicky, then two years later, leslie, then a year later Elizbeth. She worked for my wife and the kids went to our school until they were ready for high school. At this point she got a job offer with the school District in La Vega ( Adult Education) She also continued going to school and got her Masters. Her husband is a cabinet maker with sporadic income. He grew up next to my wife and was a poor as a church mouse. All three kids have graduated from high school. The oldest is a pharmacist, the second just got a volleyball scolarship to Oklahoma, and the youngest after doing a year as a exchange student in the Philipines is fluent in English and going to university in Santiago. Granpappy was a bean farmer out in the middle of nowhere, unable to read or write. I know many Dominicans that have achieved successes, and amazingly many of them have come from the campo.
