>>In another thread John Ryan referred several times to the American Dream.
>>So, what is (was) the American Dream, and has it disappeared?
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>I'd say;
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>a) with hard work, you can improve your station in life;
>b) your kids will do better than you.
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>I think it still happens for some people. My mom and her 4 siblings were orphaned immigrants. Two of them went to college (with the help of the others); all 10 of their offspring are college graduates, with a few graduate degrees thrown in.
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>But I also think it's harder to have that kind of success today than it was for previous generations.
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>Tamar
Does to you "success" mean "money and material things"? Because if you take away 'money' and 'material things' one can achieve much more today than in previous generations.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
