The American Dream Is An Evolving Dream — and still within reach
The American dream is an evolving dream. It may not be as ridiculously fancy, nor material-wealth amassing as before, but it is very much alive.
From the onset, I would like to state that, from the standpoint of a student, who recently relocated to the United States from Africa, the American dream is very much alive in my heart, and in my world.
In truth, the dream of a land in which life should be richer, and fuller and better for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability and achievement, regardless of social class or circumstances of birth, couldn’t have been more rightly said; and to James Truslow Adams I duff my hat gracefully.
The standpoint of King’s article seeks to present to us a wavering stance on the
American dream, its existence and what it means to the average American. In one instance, he presents hope of attainment of this dream and in another, the
insurmountable task of attaining this dream.
The great recession in all its backwardness is what I believe birthed the American dream that now exists. The evolving American dream.
Evolving because, the very foundation of what this dream still stands even today.
Everybody, no matter whom, can be successful. Yet the mechanisms of attaining true and sustainable success are quite different.
Growing up in Ghana, Africa as a high school student, it was not uncommon to hear among your peers the desire to pursue further studies in the US after high school. This reason being the high rate of success even with job assurance that a US University degree offered back home in Ghana, compared to that of a local university.
It was not uncommon also, to see university students contemplating staying in school after their first year to go chase their business dreams in much the same way the Facebook-Zuckerberg story happened. This truly is the American dream, and though global success stories exist, none are as radical a success story as those fuelled by the American dream.
Long before the advent of the internet age, great industrialists, touted today as the men who ‘built’ America came across a great truth -that no land presented a place for the expanse of business growth and the mechanism to harness it. Business growth in the sense that America is one of the world’s largest consumer market, both for its locally produced goods and foreign imports. Mechanisms; because the liberal laws and flexible taxation and labour laws allow for some discounts; especially as experienced in Detroit’s business taxation laws.
Education has always been pivotal in shaping and economy’s future. Especially that of the longevity of its unborn children. And as a student that assurance is what makes the American dream even more real.
There are more billionaires in this age than have ever been in the history of this nation, even more uneducated ‘intellectuals’, than have ever been, and even even more immigrant Americans than have ever been.
It will be childish to say that the boom in technology and mobile technology hasn’t contributed greatly to this. Truly, it has. The American dream now seems to hover around young budding entrants into the tech scene, and not aged, hard-core manufacturing. But this is very subjective still.
