The American dream is dead. There are no more incentives for Europeans to emigrate to the United States.
At the beginning of my comment I want to explain what the American Dream for me is. My American Dream is the possibility to reach my personal goals and to earn a lot of money by working very hard. Having a family with a comfortable house and to be healthy are also parts of my imagination of an American Dream. But at the same time I believe that the American dream is not established as one thing. It can be a lot of many different things that is varying between people and their point of view. The American dream depends on a lot of things such as income, location, religion and culture. Personally, I think becoming rich and financially stable is arguably the most important part of the American Dream. If I think about it, the American Dream is indeed a universal dream. In most parts of the world, people want to get well educated, to get a good job, and certainly to create a marvellous family. Not only Americans want to realise their American dream, it is the hopes and aspirations of every people in world.
During the last decade a very big number of Europeans had crossed the border of the United States of America to pursue the most valuable thing in life, the dream, which everybody thinks about – the American dream. Many of those immigrants sacrificed their jobs, their relationships and connections, their educational levels, and their languages at their homelands to start their new life in America and succeed in reaching their personally dreams and hopes. Which other reasons make people emigrate to the United States?
I can imagine that some Germans leaving Europe to avoid compulsory military service. Another reason for emigration could be a person's social status, which changed downwards as a result of social or economic changes. So there are social and economical reasons for leaving Europe.
Originally, the American Dream was envisaged to be life in a new world where anything successful can happen and good things might.
But today the people’s goals have changed. They aren’t satisfied with a suitable house, a good job and a family. There are always more and more wishes. The level of satisfaction is getting higher. So can we say the American dream is dead? Are there any incentives for Europeans to emigrate to the United States?
The truth is that in our society we can never really say that you can no longer achieve the American Dream because our economy is forever changing and as long as that holds true their is hope, but on the other side there are social and economical problems all over the world. American is no exception. From my point of view the American dream as a dream of becoming rich and famous is dead, because what we used to consider relevant, has become secondary. So maybe the American dream is simply a myth. It’s not possible for a growing population of six billion people to act in the way that Americans have come to expect.
It is impossible for everybody to struggle to get whatever they visualize and the final product is a superior life for everybody. With America being seen as the land of the promise, the American dream is commonly associated with the freedom and opportunity of gaining wealth, fame, power, glory, and happiness. On the surface, this dream seems almost enchanted, offering people the unprecedented prospect of achieving success regardless of one’s race, religion, or family history. Due to this dream, it was believed that America was the land of opportunity, wealth, and prosperity.
Today, the notion of the American dream stretches far beyond the idea of political and religious freedom to a more economically oriented base. The United States has increasingly become a consumer-based society, so the idea of success is now measured by material wealth - a fenced house in the suburbs complete with car, dog and two children. The American Dream is still alive, but only in the minds of those citizens who have the resources to fulfil the definition of success, namely, material wealth.
Soweit zu meinem Comment, ich brauch noch einen schönen Abschluss und vielleicht fehlt inhaltlich ja auch noch was. Für Hinweise wäre ich sehr dankbar.
Liebe Grüße, Chrissy
