I've heard about the "American dream" from when I was a child but in truth haven't the foggiest idea what it is.
It can't be anything to do with freedom or liberty because when it comes down to it, the ordinary American is the most enslaved citizen in the western world.
Please enlighten me.
2007-03-16 05:13:45 · 17 answers · asked by Barrie G 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
to happy!
2007-03-16 05:43:33 · answer #1 · answered by myangel_101211 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All your hard work get rewarded and you can achieve your life's goal whatever class or social background you came from.
This used to motivated the new settlers from the old world to build civilisation quickly on a barren soil. This applied the same to Australians.
However, the nature of American dream has changed because America has a long enough history to establish a class system, i.e.WASP as the top of the hierarchy.
By the way, you can't call the ordinary Americans are the most enslaved citizen in the Western world. You can buy huge houses with swimming pools at a fraction of costs compared to other Western countries. Also, the price of vital computer softwares are much more expensive outside America even though they were developed and produced by Americans and the people of the world no longer can survive without them. It's non-Americans who are enslaved by Americans.
2007-03-16 05:54:35 · answer #2 · answered by truthofmatter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The American Dream, as I understand it, personifies the notion that we are all capable of exerting some control over our future. You might say it is, "Where there's a will, there's a way." Any man or woman from any walk of life, at any age, can change society, or him or herself for the better. Ultimately, the difference between a rich man and a poor man, a strong man and a weak man is attitude, not nature.
It's a very optimistic viewpoint, and exciting when you adopt it. We all have options. We all can change the present to influence the future. We all have untapped power that we need only willpower to execute.
The American Dream would more accurately be called the Western Dream, because this attitude is the hallmark of modern day Western Society.
In one word, the American Dream could be defined simply as Empowerment.
2007-03-16 05:28:04 · answer #3 · answered by replicant21 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The "American Dream" is a house, a piece of land, a white picket fence, 2.5 children, a dog, two fancy cars in the drive way (or better attached 3 car garage) with sunshine, rainbows and brighter days ahead....
which is why it is simpler to refer to to as the "american dream".....
2007-03-16 05:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Sweetserenity 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The American Dream is dusty rhodes
2007-03-16 05:18:02 · answer #5 · answered by dec g 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
traditionally, people have sought to understand the yank dream of fulfillment, acceptance and wealth with the aid of thrift and demanding paintings. even in spite of the shown fact that, the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries began to erode the dream, changing it with a philosophy of "get wealthy rapid".
2016-10-02 05:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Home ownership, two cars in the garage, a chicken in the pot, a loving spouse, two or three kids, and a working vacuum cleaner, not necessarily in that order.
2007-03-16 06:26:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My american dream is to end the vile spirit that is causing so much pain and suffering throughout the world: Christianity
2007-03-16 05:39:30 · answer #8 · answered by voice0f_reason 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Having a job you like, a house and a family, and money to get by without struggling.
2007-03-16 05:19:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever seen the Stepford Wives, well its basically that, crossed with the Who's on the Grinch...
2007-03-16 06:06:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Dream is what ever you dream of you can achieve. So there is no standard American dream.
2007-03-16 05:20:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋