I decided to ask a few people as to what they thought it was. One person told me that the American dream was to be rich. Another person told me it was having a perfect family situation. The last person believed the American dream was to be able to do absolutely nothing. Whether it is a family working together towards one common goal, or a single woman working her way up the ladder, in a sense it is all the same dream. Regardles of the goal one works towards, it all comes down to success. Success includes getting ahead at work and school, and the goal of attaining wealth, power, and prestige. Without success why would anyone want to do anything? You would think that success is free to every American, but it is not.It depends very much on race, colour and sex.
American Values, it has been said, means different things to different people, but with the same major goal. Differences in wealth and status affect the meaning of the dream for different people. Its meaning has also changed repeatedly over time. The reason that it has changed is because the American goal is regulated by the government and the economy. An eighteenth century white male plant
It seemes to me like Arnold Swarzenegger is mortgaging the material values in life more than the personal and social values.
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