American Dream

American Dream Still Exists

Years ago when people thought of the American Dream, they picture living a freer, richer, and happier life. It was something that was easy to attain and worth striving for. But over the years that dream has been redefined. Now people believe it’s about getting rich and a competition of who can be more successful. This is not what the dream is about. The American Dream has been declining along with moral values and motivation. America is the ideal country filled with opportunity, a country where everyone has a chance of making something of themselves, reaching their ambitions, and living the standard life. For some, the American Dream is still accessible to those who are willing to make an effort for it for it. Based on evidence it seems that people who have “failed” at achieving the American Dream either gave up or didn’t want it enough. In 2012, the original dream is slowly disappearing because nobody makes an effort to reach it anymore. But it still exists to those who work for it.

Before, the Dream was to imagine life where anything successful can happen and good things will come in time. (Hochschild). Martin Luther King Jr. once said that he also had a dream. “That on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood"(King). Today’s idea of the American Dream is dead, because in the minds of many citizens, it’s alive to those who have the resources to succeed. America is the most significant country in the world. Our country is seen for not only in financial potency and industry power, but also a choice of clothes, music and leisure activities. It is this awareness that lures people to the idea of the American Dream. “Over time, America has been a land of immigrants and the home to people of many ethnic groups and cultures, all aspiring to achieve the traditional Dream. All came to embrace the Dream and entered the melting pot in the aspiration to...