The American Dream.
The American Dream, a dream on which our country has been built on and continues to develop and bring new and new waves of immigrants. It is a part of each American; this dream has been the light at the end of the tunnel for which our parents and ancestors were coming for. To find a life that was rewarded and built only on their will of hard working and efforts. The term “American Dream” is one of the triggers that lead to the shores of the USA many thousands of immigrants, it had a deep meaning for them, and it was first introduced to us by an American writer and historian James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book called “The Epic of America”, where he gives the definition of the term how he said “The American Dream”, by saying that the life should be better and richer, everyone should be equal, have a job, having a car or high paid job was not that important, it was more important to have of a social order where man and woman were equal and all these successes were based only on a their own abilities, achievements and hardworking skills (Adams 106). Also Adams was taking into an account the material rewards but which was not that crucial “No, ‘The American Dream’ that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of merely material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily. It has been much more than that. It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class. And that dream has been realized more fully in actual life here than anywhere else, though very imperfectly even among ourselves” (Adams 416). Speaking with sociological terms “The American Dream” could have been reached no matter of the statuses whether they are achieved or ascribed.
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