this is a serious question ... i know what it is supposed to mean i just want to know what does it stand for in reality. i have never been to the us and dont plan to go there except for a short holiday but amerericans keep on saying that it is the land of dreams but then we hear about all the problems in the welfare system, racism and the huge crime ratese and the wages arent that great either.
how would you imagine ur life if u werent born in america but in some other equally industrialised country like england, switzeralnd or italy ?
2007-01-12 11:33:08 · 8 answers · asked by Lara^mt 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
what about the last bit of the question?
2007-01-12 11:52:30 · update #1
Gosh...
Well, traditionally since the founding of the U.S, the American Dream has been to live with complete freedom, to gain wealth, and to be happy and content in life (basically to live in the utopia of a nation).
That was the old Dream. Now, for a whole lot of people here, it's become just trying to get by, day by day. America's roads sure aren't paved in gold. It's tragic how the land of the "free" has become a land of censorship and oppression. The only portion of the original American Dream that's intact is the goal to get rich, which is superficial and undeserved in many successful cases, while others starve for no reason.
I may sound contemptuous, but that's because I've seen in the United States what the beauty of the old American Dream was, as well as how every one of those goals has been destroyed systematically by our government...
2007-01-12 11:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by xo_That's A Promise_ox 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
the yank Dream replaced into unsustainable from the getgo. Do your justifiable percentage and also you will get a magnificent living house interior the suburbs, artwork until eventually you're sixty 5, retire, receive free money from the authorities once you retire. regrettably, this isn't possible interior the international of reality. if you're actually not generating any wealth for an economic device, and take money out from that similar economic device, then that produces a unfavourable effect. In any economic device, that unfavourable stability will catch up and the country isn't waiting to pay the bill on that is own economic device. So the country borrows, is now in debt to a special usa, and turns round to do the very similar aspect. This dream has been in a conflict for existence for a at the same time as now, and it truly is taking that is totally last blow from this undesirable economic difficulty.
2016-11-23 14:56:18 · answer #2 · answered by corina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To make things short, the American dream is different for everyone. I suppose one summary goes to describe rugged individualism: The American citizen has every right to work as hard as they want in order to succeed in life. People come here because they want to make a living, and they want to succeed. All that is needed is a little hard work. The goal and dream, as you may want to call it, is to become successful. That's what this country is all about. Achievement in life and success.
Edit: I have no firm answer for the last part. I've had one too many bad experiences from some countries in Europe to really define what my life could have been like.
2007-01-12 11:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In reality, the American dream isn't anything of worth. It's materialistic. Here's a song by Switchfoot that puts in to words what I'm trying to say.
American Dream
When success is equated with excess
The ambition for excess wrecks us
As top of the mind becomes the bottom line
When success is equated with excess
If your time ain’t been nothing for money
I start to feel really bad for you, honey
Maybe honey, put your money where your mouth’s been running
If your time ain’t been nothing but money
I want out of this machine
It doesn’t feel like freedom
This ain’t my American dream
I want to live and die for bigger things
I’m tired of fighting for just me
This ain't my American dream
When success is equated with excess
When we’re fighting for the Beamer, the Lexus
As the heart and soul breath in the company goals
Where success is equated with excess
‘Cause baby’s always talkin’ ‘bout a ring
And talk has always been the cheapest thing
Is it true would you do what I want you to
If I show up with the right amount of bling?
Like a puppet on a monetary string
Maybe we’ve been caught singing
Red, white, blue, and green
But that ain’t my America,
That ain’t my American dream
2007-01-12 11:47:15 · answer #4 · answered by DespiteTheseRains 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The American Dream is setting a goal and reaching that goal. It is also being able to say with sincerity that I love who and what I am and do. Being able to live in comfort not worrying about the security of your children and grandchildren.
2007-01-12 11:53:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That no matter what the circumstances of your birth, if you work hard you have an equal chance of becoming wealthy and successful as anyone else. Too bad each year this becomes less and less true.
2007-01-12 11:46:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The american dream is the horatio alger myth of capitalism. Being financially successful and by twisted logic ergo sum happy.
The neocon american dream is an unthinking, christian, fascist america that controls the world.
2007-01-12 11:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Socks 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The American dream is If you have money, your in good shape, if you have no money your in bad shape. Everything in America is about Money. The welfare system is not what you think it is.
2007-01-12 11:43:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋