How To Achieve The American Dream

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Despite everyone's dream is different, the common American dream is "democracy, freedom and human rights." "Democracy" is a political system, it is the soil of American dream; a country does not have a good system, and that citizens can only do "Daydream", any good dream will be difficult to achieve. "Freedom" is to the way to achieve the American dream, embodies the American dream of respect for the individual citizen and the "people-oriented" governance philosophy; everyone can have their own dreams, you can use your own favorite way to realize their dreams; if there is no freedom like freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, of procession and of freedom, freedom of demonstration, strike freedom, …show more content…

To be honest, the American dream is the very important driving force to the development of American society and the world. But it makes the gap between rich and poor to grow bigger and bigger. Earlier this year, have been released in the United States with the 2014 annual "American and Mongolia" poll-related data, some scholars have pointed out that "the American Dream" on people's attractiveness has been poorer than before, perhaps indicating that the "American Dream" as the representative of the Western capitalist values are gradually entering an unprecedented fork. Recently, the "New York Times" published a reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin reports, "polls show that many people feel that" American Dream "is difficult to achieve," that "the American Dream" in public opinion has become increasingly recession; "Washington Post" also recently published a reporter Lisa Rein and Josh Hicks reports "The federal government's declining morale" and other related articles. According to the "New York Times" and other media 2014 annual survey results show that, although when compared with the 2008 financial crisis, the US economy and the employment situation has improved, but only 64% of people still believe that the …show more content…

America is often called the "land of opportunity", to the flow of high-income opportunity, which is one of the cores of the American dream. Of course there are success stories, such as Benjamin Franklin during the American founding period, and President Barack Obama in recent time. But for most Americans, the reality is much more grim. "A label of the American dream is the equal opportunity, that anyone will be able to follow the rules if they work hard and achieve economic success of faith. But this story from the poor to the rich, more to happen in Hollywood, rather than the real world." US Pew Charitable Trusts Economic Mobility Project Director Erin Currier said so. American sociologist and economist, statistics show that over the past 30 years, the American social mobility greatly reduced, making countless children from poor families broken American dream. One pair of 146 US universities survey, 75% of students come from 25% of the most affluent households, less than 5% of the students come from the poorest 25% of households. Currier in the interview with this reporter, said: "The stagnation of social mobility show that family

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