American Dream Inequality

The “American Dream” is a quite ambiguous saying, according to Dictionary.com the American dream is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.” However, although defined as so such saying slightly differs from person to person, especially those from the U.S and migrants from other countries. For example, whenever asking my now U.S citizen, but Mexican born mother what the “American Dream” means she described it as “opportunities like money, jobs, health care that aren’t seen in Mexico and are solemnly the reason why she migrated to the U.S twenty-seven years ago.” However, whenever I asked my fiancé and sister both American born, but different ethnicity they shared common viewpoints

What was once seen before isn’t seen now. With that in mind, Inequality for all not only showed real facts and truth, but also reshaped my overview of life in the U.S. Inequality, staggering wages, and the 1% getting even richer while the cost of living is also increasing is a scary thought but is real which leads me to believe that “American Dream” isn’t as acquirable as it once was. Prosperity from the 60s and 70s accurately defined the “American Dream” however as time went by the definition also changed. Which is why I defined the “American Dream” as a dream in which each individual defines it depending on their current situation. Like seen in the movie my perception changed as Robert Reich illustrated how the 40 of the richest men in the U.S have as much money as half of the U.S. This changed my entire definition of worth, while growing up I viewed 10 dollars as 100 dollars but now 100 dollars are like 10 dollars. Along with worth Inequality not only changed wages and gender bias, but also ethnicity I feel as if nowadays prejudice, racial bias, and purely racism has made a great dent in acquiring the “American Dream” and how people define