Is the American Dream Still Possibile?

Question

Ok, almost every immigrant from the past 100 years who has come to the US came here to find achieve the American Dream. What is the American dream they're all looking for and is it possible anymore?

Answer 1

Absolutely its possible. I had just read this article recently (sorry don't think I could find it again-might have been in PARADE in the sunday Newspaper a few weeks back) about a young man who had come over the border illegally from mexico with his parents at a very young age (like 5 or 6). He is now a US Citizen, college graduate and an M.D. and he's in his mid 20s. I think motivation is the key for the most part. I think the American dream for most people that come to this country is to achieve a better standard of living compared to where they came from. For some its being able to have a job and food on the table everynight rather than being impoverished. For people that grew up in this country their idea of the American Dream might be completely different and based on their upbringing. For instance, a girl I went to school with every woman in her family had been able to complete highschool but they never had the chance to attend college. She was the first female in her family to achieve this. She was able to have that choice as well as the possibility that it would help to raise her standard of living (whatever that may be) in the future.
It's what you make it and what you are motivated to do.

Answer 2

If you are an American citizen, you are already living a better life than over 75% of all the people on earth. If you have a computer, which you obviously do, you are living better than over 90% of the people on earth. It is simple, we have greater freedom, cleaner places to live, little or no fear of being invaded by a warring faction (except for a very rare terrorist attack), civil rights consistently denied by many other governments, and the ability to earn a far better living than the vast majority of people on this planet. The problem is that we are very spoiled and have begun to take all this for granted and cry about not having it all just given to us. I get sick of hearing how bad so many people in the USA have it. They are just lazy and think that that by just being alive, they should have everything they want given to them. In reality, that is what makes is so easy for immigrants, legal or not, to become successful. They see fertile soil ready to be planted, nurtured, and harvested. They are not afraid of the work, they embrace the opportunity to do so. The American dream is very alive, you are living it and don't even know it. If you doubt this, use your Daddy's credit card and book a vacation to South America. Don't just see the usual tourist stops of the major cities, travel into the back streets where the real people of those places live. See the open sewers, the lack of drinking water, the thousands of children picking through the garbage looking for food, see the tin shacks with no electricity, and realize these people will never have a chance for an education. Stay with them for a month with no water to bathe, live like them and that will be your education. That will be a great story for how I spent my summer vacation, don't forget you will be walking most of the time, but look at their feet, do you see shoes? Probably not, they are for rich people. You have more material things in your closet than they will ever have in their lives. You complain about not having the latest ipod or whatever while they struggle to stay alive. Go, see, live, learn, then come back here and ask yourself if the American dream is possible anymore.

Answer 3

One hundred and fifty years ago, people were told to go west.
Freedom abound, new cities popping up all across the nation. There was a very real opportunity for free men to find their fortune. With that came dangers as well. Obtainable.

80 years ago, the US emerged from the great depression with hopes of a chicken in every pot. Unemployment rates dropped with the new government infrastruture construction plans, etc. And all Americans continued to enjoy that same freedom with hopes of a house and a small farm and lots of children to work the land. Obtainable.

20 years age, the American dream was a couple of automobiles, a house in the suburbs, 2.5 kids, and a dog. Obtainable.

Now, the dreams is similar to that of 20 years ago, but its obtainability is less and will probably continue to decline due to globalization. Americans enjoy great buying power with the vast level of imports from countries with lower labor rates. Manufacturing jobs have been on the slide for decades as the US moved to a predominately service industry based economy. In other words, Americans can more easily own more stuff, but find it more difficult to keep gasoline in those two cars and buy that house in the suburbs.

The chance of obtaining that dream of 20 years ago is slipping and Americans will need to redefinite that dream if they want to continue using the slogan.

The most recent American dream is obtainable now in other parts of the world. Places as Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, which have emerged from behind the iron curtain a decade and a half ago. Even this will continue to shift across the map to the east due to globization over the next decade.

Go west young man... That no longer exists.

For the immigrants, they can enjoy the American dream, if want they want is a lot of stuff MADE IN CHINA.

Answer 4

The American Dream is to make a life for yourself that was better than your parents' was. And yes, it is still possible.

What most Americans no longer do is to live frugally. We spend every dollar long before we make it (using credit cards, taking loans, etc). Then, when emergencies come up, or we lose a job, we have no savings to support us in our job search. Also, when looking for a job, we tend to get arrogant and don't want less than we were being paid in our previous job.

And kids today are worse. Not only do they expect to be highly paid, they don't want to work for it either. Go to any mall or fast food place and watch them working. They look half asleep or confused. Or they are spend more time on the phone than doing their job. Yet they get ticked off if they don't get a raise after less than one month on the job!

Anyone can get a job here. Maybe not the best job, or doing what they want, but there ARE jobs. If you work hard, earn money, be responsible with that money, you can purchase a home, car, get a college education, whatever you want.

People need to remember it takes time.
While America isn't perfect, it is by far better off than most countries.

Answer 5

the yank Dream grow to be unsustainable from the getgo. Do your justifiable percentage and also you may want to get a great abode in the suburbs, artwork till you're sixty 5, retire, acquire loose funds from the authorities when you retire. regrettably, this isn't a possibility in the international of truth. when you're literally not generating any wealth for an economic gadget, and take funds out from that particular same economic gadget, then that produces a adverse effect. In any economic gadget, that adverse stability will seize up and the rustic heavily isn't able to pay the bill on it is personal economic gadget. So the rustic borrows, is now in debt to a special us of a, and turns round to do the exact same ingredient. This dream has been in a conflict for existence for a lengthy time period now, and it truly is taking it is totally last blow from this negative economic difficulty.

Answer 6

For most working class folks THE AMERICAN DREAM IS NO LONGER ATTAINABLE.The costs of living has outpaced wages making it impossible to save. So many of us are living beyond our means and not within our means. The only people who are living the American Dream are the educated and ruling classes. Those who live in the working classes have almost everything working against them because they can't change the ruling classes. Just look around you and see what all the politicans are getting away with. Even CEO's with their huge salary packages. Changes in laws that benefit the rich and against the working class. So depending on your socioeconomic and educational background the American Dream is attainable.

Answer 7

Homer Simpson once said : "They can experience boredom, obesity and lack of ambition, you know, the American dream."
But despite all it's problems America and the UK (despite all the freaking terrorists lately) is a save haven for people from underprivileged countries, who want quality of life.
Dont know bout American national health though. You can get bankrupt getting sick. Canada's better in that respect.

Answer 8

I think every american has a different dream but as long as you are happier here than where you were last, i think you have found your dream

Answer 9

Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that is the American Dream and yes you can still live it.

Answer 10

No.
Look around in your own backyards how the dreams is turning into smokes and ashes.
The immigrants were searching for our creator's universal gifts of life for their own survival on planet earth.
The universal gifts of life which could not be seen with living human kind naked eyes or be trace by multi-billion US dollars of artificial intelligence of junks of Mr. Big Brother.
The loss of our craetor's universal gifts of life can be seen from the expression of wandering flocks of lost sheeps blindly searching for it on planet earth.