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This link sends you to a video where is explained what is killing the American dream.
And this woman explains the 'new American dream': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPf0LjZAS14

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Their is only a small part of the populations left that stil believes in the American dream. The ones that still believe in it are dissapointed how the other people deal with all the crime and wrong things that happen in their own country/ continent.

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In een gewezen jazzclub in West Palm Beach, waar een hoekig hotelontbijt werd geserveerd, glipte The American Dream door mijn vingers. Het gebeurde in november vorig jaar en fotograaf Daniel Rosenthal leverde de passende quote erbij: 'Let's get out of here!'

Samen zagen we tijdens het ontbijt op het tv-nieuws hoe een maand na een schietpartij in Las Vegas een - nieuwe - schietgrage gek was opgestaan en in een kerk in Texas 27 mensen had doodgeschoten. Elke hoogwaardigheidsbekleder (gouverneur, burgemeester, president) zette de massamoord weg als een broekje in de branding, veroorzaakt door een onverwacht aanzwellende golf in de Atlantische Oceaan. 'They are really crazy here!', vervolgde Rosenthal.

Van The American Dream kun je zeggen dat het allemaal bullshit is, viriele luchtfietserij, bedacht in the boiling room van een reclamebureau om auto's, ijskasten, priklimonade, nylon kousen en prefab huizen te kunnen verkopen. Maar het is ook een kapstok voor romantische en optimistische vergezichten; je weet wel, smachtend in de auto, tuffend door de Everglades of de Rocky Mountains, op weg naar een goed verhaal, de radio afgestemd op twangy countrymuziek.

'With a dream in your heart, you are never alone', zong Dionne Warwick al.

Cyril Abad is een fotograaf uit Parijs die vermoedt dat president Donald Trump de steen is die de voorruit doet versplinteren. The American Dream is op weg naar de uitgang, dankzij de president, en alleen nog een stel verloren hemelbestormers bijt zich vast in dit aloude ideaal van Amerika, land van onbeperkte mogelijkheden.

The Last Dreamers noemt Abad zijn fotoserie, de allerlaatste dromers, die door hem magnifiek in beeld zijn gebracht. Want dat is wat Amerika altijd is, in voor- en tegenspoed: fotogeniek. Het licht is goed, ook voor desolaat verlangen.

Ik zag het eerder in New York, Colorado, Mississippi en Tennessee, om het in Florida vorig jaar vol in het gezicht te krijgen. Het verval van Amerika; het chagrijn, het gesnauw, de lelijkheid, armoede, de gaten in de weg, gebouwen in puin - vooral: het gebrek aan dromers. En daar in de jazzclub, na de schietpartij in Texas, kwam dat samen, na het dubbelloops deleten van The American Dream door een waco in Sutherlands Springs.

Weg hier, plankgas, snel naar huis.

Maar eerst nog een slim fit suit kopen bij Burlington, in die fijne shopping mall om de hoek, waar je met een dromerige glimlach en voor weinig dollars door lieftallige werknemers in je pak wordt gehesen.

Big Savings! Big Deals! DRESS UP FOR LESS!

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De laatste dromers van The American Dream

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In een gewezen jazzclub in West Palm Beach, waar een hoekig hotelontbijt werd geserveerd, glipte The American Dream door mijn vingers. Het gebeurde in november vorig jaar en fotograaf Daniel Rosenthal leverde de passende quote erbij: 'Let's get out of here!'

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The "American Dream" is the idea that anyone can, with hard work and perseverance, bring themselves up out of poverty and achieve greatness in some fashion. Sometimes it might take a couple of generations, but material prosperity is supposed to be accessible to all. There is a dark side to this dream, however: if anyone can achieve prosperity with hard work, then those who don't achieve must not be working hard enough. Right?

Many might attribute this attitude to secular ideology and secular capitalism, but the earliest source can be found in the Old Testament and is known as Deuteronomist Theology. According to this doctrine, Yahweh will bless those who obey and punish those who disobey. In practice, it is expressed in the reverse form: if you're suffering then it must be because you disobeyed and if you're prospering it must be because you have been obedient.

Charlie Kilian wrote a couple of years ago:

[I]f standards of living were simply a matter of self expectations, shouldn't it be true that I could also live better if only I were to expect more? It's obvious (to me at least) that while I would love to live better than I currently do, I am already doing everything I know how to live as well as I can. Perhaps the problem, then, is that she doesn't know what resources are available to help her move up the ladder.
Whatever the reason, it has become clear to me that economic class is a much greater force in our society than we usually acknowledge. It's much harder to rise above the class you were born into than the American Dream meme would have us believe. And just as importantly, it's equally hard to fall below your birth class.
The American Dream, then, has an unheralded dark side. With the expectation that hard work is always rewarded comes the idea that anyone who has not been rewarded must not work hard. It promotes the perception that people in economic classes lower than yours are lazy and stupid. Professor B summed it up well. Economic class is usually mistaken for intelligence.
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The emphasized sentence was the idea that inspired Kilian's post and I emphasize it here in order to encourage others to stop and think more carefully about it. To what degree do we see someone successful and assume that they are smarter than the rest of us? To what degree do we see someone in poverty and assume that they must be dumb or lazy? It doesn't have to be a conscious assumption -- on the contrary, I think that insofar as such assumptions exist, they are probably more often unconscious than conscious.

To determine whether we have such assumptions, then, we need to look at things like our reactions to such people and how we treat them. Behavior is often a much truer demonstration of what we really believe than our words. With this, we might be able to trace our thinking backwards and discern what sorts of assumptions we might be operating under. We might not always like what we find.

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Is the American Dream All It's Cracked Up to Be?

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The "American Dream" is the idea that anyone can, with hard work and perseverance, bring themselves up out of poverty and achieve greatness in some fashion. Sometimes it might take a couple of generations, but material prosperity is supposed to be accessible to all.

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Van onze redacteur

BrusselAls uw ouders aan de lopende band in de fabriek staan, is de kans dan groot dat u hetzelfde werk doet? Dat onderzocht de Europese Stichting tot verbetering van de levensomstandigheden (Eurofound). Wat blijkt? In België en Griekenland was de sociale mobiliteit het grootst, zowel opwaarts als neerwaarts. Met andere woorden, in ons land had de job die ouders uitoefenen de kleinste invloed op wat hun kinderen later doen.

Over de afgelopen decennia nam de sociale mobiliteit alleen maar toe. Wie geboren werd voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog kende een lagere sociale mobiliteit dan wie tussen 1946 en 1964 het levenslicht zag. De groep geboren tussen 1965 en 1975, de jongste groep die onderzocht werd, was het minst afhankelijk van de beroepsstatus van haar ouders.

Dat de sociale mobiliteit de voorbije decennia toegenomen is, lijkt evident maar dat is het niet. Van de 20 onderzochte Europese landen bleef de sociale mobiliteit slechts in zes landen toenemen. In vijf landen ging die achteruit, in de andere landen bleef ze stabiel. In Portugal, Bulgarije, Oostenrijk en Spanje is de mobiliteit het laagst.

Het begint in de kleuterschool

'Onderwijs is bij ons vandaag veel minder de gulden weg naar sociale mobiliteit' Jan Vranken Emeritus professor Universiteit Antwerpen

De studie geeft geen specifieke verklaringen waarom België het goed doet. Maar er worden wel een aantal factoren aangestipt die bijdragen tot een goede sociale mobiliteit. Het onderwijs speelt daarin een belangrijke rol.

Landen waar kinderen al vroeg genieten van voorschoolse educatie, doen het doorgaans beter, aldus de studie. 'De kleuterschool en de kinderopvang zijn al heel lang stevig uitgebouwd', zegt Ides Nicaise (KU Leuven), specialist in onderwijs en maatschappelijke integratie. 'Uit de literatuur blijkt dat dit een springplank is voor de latere loopbaan, omdat daar sociale en cognitieve vaardigheden aangeleerd worden.'

Ook ons hoger onderwijs, dat toegankelijk en laagdrempelig is, scoort goed. Maar ons secundair onderwijs is volgens de Eurofound-studie dan weer minder geschikt om de sociale mobiliteit te bevorderen. Wanneer kinderen vroeg hun studierichting moeten kiezen - in Vlaanderen op de leeftijd van 12 - leidt dat doorgaans tot meer ongelijkheid.

In de Vlaamse regering gingen stemmen op om die studiekeuze uit te stellen tot de leeftijd van 14 jaar, maar de onderwijshervorming liet uiteindelijk de scholen de knoop doorhakken: ze mogen de keuze uitstellen, maar het hoeft niet. 'Ik ben zeer pessimistisch over die hervorming', zegt Nicaise. Uit eerder onderzoek dat hij deed, blijkt dat de socio-economische achtergrond van de ouders in belangrijke mate voorspelt of een kind algemeen secundair onderwijs volgt.

De ladder beklimmen wordt moeilijker

Een cruciale vraag is of de sociale mobiliteit ook toegenomen is voor wie na 1975 is geboren. In Nederland, waar de sociale mobiliteit een gelijkaardig verloop kende, stelt men vast dat 'de gouden periode van opwaartse sociale mobiliteit' voorbij is. Een belangrijke verklaring is dat onderwijs niet langer een motor is om de maatschappij nog gelijker te maken. Bovendien staat gelijkheid niet meer bovenaan de politieke agenda, aldus de studie.

Jan Vranken, emeritus professor aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en specialist in sociale mobiliteit, vreest dat de sociale mobiliteit voor de jongste generaties minder zal zijn. 'Onderwijs is ook bij ons vandaag veel minder de gulden weg naar sociale mobiliteit', stelt hij vast.

Ook de verdwijnende middenklassejobs zijn niet bevorderend. 'Daardoor wordt de afstand tussen de sporten van de beroepsladder groter', zegt Vranken. Bovendien werken mensen ook minder lang voor een bedrijf. 'Het is nu minder gebruikelijk dat mensen opklimmen binnen het bedrijf.'

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Van onze redacteur BrusselAls uw ouders aan de lopende band in de fabriek staan, is de kans dan groot dat u hetzelfde werk doet? Dat onderzocht de Europese Stichting tot verbetering van de levensomstandigheden (Eurofound). Wat blijkt? In België en Griekenland was de sociale mobiliteit het grootst, zowel opwaarts als neerwaarts.

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Ondara - "American Dream" (Official Video)

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The collapse of The American dream.

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The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation

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De donkere kant van de ‘American Dream’ in één aangrijpende ... - Het Nieuwsblad

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The American Dream is the idea that the government should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their idea of happiness.

The government protects the rights of you and every other American citizen to find their path to economic prosperity. Unlike many other countries, you are not required to follow your father's profession. Your destiny is not legally determined at birth by caste, religion, or gender. There is still discrimination, but the law protects your right to pursue a better life.

However, some wonder if the American Dream is dead or threatened. Let's examine the evidence by looking at its history.

The American Dream's Origins

The Declaration of Independence states the principles that underlie the American Dream: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."﻿﻿

The Founding Fathers based the U.S. Constitution-the highest law in the land-on these rights. Each person's desire to pursue happiness was not just self-indulgence, but also drove ambition and creativity. By legally protecting these values, the Founding Fathers created an attractive society for those aspiring to a better life.﻿﻿

The Declaration continues: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." For the drafters of the Declaration and later the Constitution, the American Dream could only thrive if it were not hindered by taxation without representation.﻿﻿

The people should have the right to elect officials to represent them. These leaders must abide by the laws themselves and not create new legislation without oversight. Legal disputes must be settled by a jury rather than by the whim of the leader.

How U.S. Presidents Shaped the American Dream

At first, the Founding Fathers only extended the Dream to white property owners.﻿﻿﻿ But the idea of inalienable rights was so powerful that laws were added to extend these rights to formerly enslaved people, women, and non-property owners. In this way, the American Dream changed the course of America itself.

For example, President Abraham Lincoln extended the American dream to formerly enslaved people with the Emancipation Proclamation, and President Woodrow Wilson supported women's voting rights, which led to the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in June 1919.

More presidential changes:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt outlined an Economic Bill of Rights in his 1944 State of the Union address, defining the pursuit of happiness as decent housing, a good job, education, and health care.

President Harry S. Truman: Truman's "post-war social contract" included the GI Bill, providing government-funded college degrees for returning veterans. Truman's Fair Deal expanded the dream to include entitlement: If you worked hard and played by the rules, the government should guarantee financial security, education, health care, and a home.﻿﻿

President Lyndon B. Johnson: Johnson promoted Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ending segregation in the schools and protecting workers from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported the Dream of homeownership. President Barack Obama supported the legal benefits of the marriage contract regardless of sexual orientation. Obama furthered FDR's idea that everyone should have access to affordable health care. He softened the recession's blow for many by extending unemployment benefits and increasing government assistance for student loans.

The American Dream and Success

As we can see, throughout U.S. history, the definition of "happiness" has changed. In the Roaring 20s, the Founders' dream of protecting opportunities receded in favor of acquiring material things. In the novel "The Great Gatsby," author F. Scott Fitzgerald both defined the aspirations of the age and warned of its consequences.

Happiness based upon greed was not attainable because someone else always had more, he pointed out.﻿﻿ The stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression proved him right.

After the 1920s, many presidents supported the Gatsby Dream.

The American Dream's prosperity has also been a compelling vision for other nations, along with the idea that protecting citizens' rights to improve their lives is the best way to ensure national economic growth.﻿﻿

But the U.S has long had a setting conducive to prosperity, peace, and opportunity. For example, the United States has a large landmass under one government, benign neighbors, and abundant natural resources. These include oil and minerals, rainfall, and plenty of rivers. Long shorelines and a flat terrain ease transportation.

These conditions fostered a populace united by language, political system, and values, which allowed a diverse population to possess a competitive advantage. U.S. companies use that advantage to become more innovative, with a large, diverse, and easily accessible test market for new and niche products.

Today, this approach extends to private enterprise and a free-market economy in the U.S., which depends on the free flow of information. It also supports free trade agreements and foreign direct investment.

The American Dream: Is it Dead?

Several factors are challenging the American Dream's continued viability. Including:

Low mobility: The United States has lower rates of income mobility than other developed countries. America scores lower than France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway, and Denmark.﻿﻿

Government debt: The U.S. has $27 trillion in federal debt and $4 trillion in consumer debt. Combined, that's much more than the U.S. gross domestic product of $21 trillion.﻿﻿

Climate change: Some people feel their vision of the American dream is threatened by solutions like the Green New Deal. But if nothing is done, global warming will slow growth. Between 2007 and 2017, extreme weather, health risks, sea-level rise, and food inflation, have cost the U.S. government $350 billion.﻿﻿

Some point to social trends as proof that the American Dream has died, including epidemics of obesity, child abuse, and drug addiction.

A "New" American Dream?

Global economic conditions have indeed changed. But the Founding Fathers never intended the American Dream to provide world dominance and the guarantee of a good life. The Declaration of Independence says nothing about a particular lifestyle and doesn't define how happiness should look.

Our Founding Fathers' vision sought to ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to pursue their vision of happiness. It also promotes faith in private free enterprise as a way to pursue that happiness. All people have an equal and inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of their happiness. Federal law protects this right.

Many are turning to a new definition of the American dream that better reflects the country's values for which it was named. In her book The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream, Courtney E. Martin writes that Americans should "return to some of the most basic ... questions: What is enough money? How do we want to spend our finite energy and attention? What makes us feel accountable and witnessed?" She suggests you should aspire to create "a life you can be genuinely proud of, an 'examined life' (in the words of dead Greek guys), a life that you are challenged by, a life that makes you giddy, that sometimes surprises you, a life that you love."﻿﻿

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How Our Founding Fathers Protected the American Dream

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The American Dream is the idea that the government should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their idea of happiness. The government protects the rights of you and every other American citizen to find their path to economic prosperity. Unlike many other countries, you are not required to follow your father's profession.

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American Dream

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Opinion | Trump Is Killing the American Dream (Published 2018)

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It has been endangered for some decades now, but his racist policies are hastening its demise.

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American Dream

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The American Dream is alive and well.

Nearly 60% of respondents surveyed in Bank of the West's 2018 Millennial Study believe they have attained the American Dream or believe that it's still attainable today.

This feeling is widespread across all three generations - an equal percentage of both millennial and Gen X respondents (57%) hold this belief, while 62% of baby boomers do.

All generations even define the American Dream the same way, considering homeownership, no debt, and a comfortable retirement as the top three components. They do, however, prioritize them differently.

Gen X places equal emphasis on owning a home and retiring comfortably (59%) and less on being debt-free. Baby boomers place the most emphasis on retiring comfortably, followed by owning a home and being debt-free. Millennials, meanwhile, say the most important aspects are owning a home and having no debt, with retiring comfortably taking third place.

There is a 24 percentage point difference between baby boomers (73%) and millennials (49%) who view retiring comfortably as a key component of the American Dream. "It's no secret that the realities of retirement begin to set in as you get older, making it more top-of-mind for Gen X and baby boomers," Ryan Bailey, head of retail banking at Bank of the West, told Business Insider.

"Millennials are prioritizing near-term wants and needs over long-term goals," he continued. "We suspect that as millennials age, they will begin to place more of an emphasis on their retirement plans."

'Untethered' millennials are pursuing their passions

In addition to retirement, homeownership, and debt, those who said they believe in the American Dream were given five other components to choose from (they were able select more than one response): pursuing a passion, having children, getting married, making it on your own, and owning a car.

Millennials broke away from the mold, perhaps unsurprisingly, by adding a strong fourth element to their definition of the American Dream. Right behind retiring comfortably, 47% of millennials view pursuing their passion as a key component. This is quite the contrast from Gen X and baby boomers, of which only 29% and 27%, respectively, considered pursuing your passion a factor, making it the least popular of all options presented to them.

"With 60% of millennials feeling untethered and not stuck in one place, they believe they have time to pursue passions, such as a trying out new professions or exploring a new city, rather than feeling pressure to settle down like their older counterparts may be experiencing (or have experienced already)," Bailey said, adding that they still haven't taken their eye off more traditional components of the American Dream.

"They think of themselves as the wanderlust generation but at the end of the day, the apples aren't falling far from the tree," Bailey said.

The survey also found millennial women tend to include more components in their definition of the American Dream than men. The only two things millennial men placed more emphasis on than women were earning a big paycheck and becoming an entrepreneur.

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People of all ages define the American Dream the same way - but millennials take it one step further

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The American Dream is alive and well. Nearly 60% of respondents surveyed in Bank of the West's 2018 Millennial Study believe they have attained the American Dream or believe that it's still attainable today. This feeling is widespread across all three generations - an equal percentage of both millennial and Gen X respondents (57%) hold this belief, while 62% of baby boomers do.