The American Dream In The Disney Film Pinocchio

Nothing encapsulates the American Dream better then what a cricket in a top hat said in the Disney film Pinocchio,

“When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you”

The American Dream is a prodigious ideal of a society where individuals can achieve a better, richer, fuller life than what they begin with if they are able to put the necessary effort towards achieving it. It is a dream where foundations were built on codes of liberty, equality, social mobility, and rights. In addition, it’s outcomes are based on comparisons of philosophies such as happiness, prosperity and success. This national ethos serves as a vehicle of motivation and hope as it grounds itself in the belief that every

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

In this political season the phrase American Dream is being used commonly and at times unrealistically. The presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, Donald Trump claims the American Dream is dead and is attempting to revive it for all Americans. The key falsehood in this is that American Dream is not available for all

With a lack of quality education how can one go on to make an income of American Dream standards? Recent by the Institution on Assets and Social Policy found that the wealth gap between white families and African-Americans has tripled between 1984 and 2009. While African Americans make up only 12% of the U.S they represent 45 percent of the homeless and in 2004, had the highest poverty rate at 24.3%. Unemployment is also particularly high among African-Americans as they account for 22% of the unemployed and 28% of the long term unemployed. Jobless rates for Whites, however are roughly half that of Blacks. This is a result of both explicit discrimination and occupational segregation. Occupational segregation is also a driving force behind the disparity of income rates. African Americans tend to live in neighbourhoods where the median income is only 70 percent that of Whites. While there are integrated communities the harsh reality is that, “the black middle class overall remains as segregated from Whites as the black poor.” Decades of housing segregation have trapped blacks in jobless areas with understaffed schools which is a common generator of the economic slope of African Americans. In the top income bracket, far