The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.
The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.