American Dreaming

What is the American Dream? The concept and the promises of the American Dream have become so perverted over the years by Americans that immigrants have a better understanding and desire to achieve the true American Dream than people who were born in this country. The American Dream is not living like the Kennedy’s on some compound in Martha’s Vineyard, or becoming a tech billionaire, or even a millionaire athlete or movie star. Those lives are limited to a few.

But the authentic American Dream is available to everyone. It is the simple idea that the child does better than the parents. That is the goal. The parents work hard to give their children better life opportunities than they had. And those children work hard to give their children better opportunities. The American Dream is a generational process of incrementally improving the social class of the family.  Although there are some compelling examples, the American Dream was not meant to be realized in one generation. It was always a multi-generational dream achieved through a generational sacrifice.