Look at trends, aspirations of Americans...Poll what many seem to want, and what many strive to become. Demographics, demographics.
Really, you could look outside, go across America, and come up with a similar connotation almost merely based off of physical stimulus, but...not entirely.
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith in God is absurd, since it is impossible to know, or understand His purpose."
Urgh. Since I'm here... The American Dream is whatever you want it to be. In different point in history, it meant different things. Back during the early 1800s, it was the American Dream to own your own plot of land and be a self sufficient, independent farmer. Look at Whitman's I Hear America Singing.
The American Dream is civil rights. It's a two story house and 2.5 kids. It's whatever you want it to be. The American Dream of two different people can even contradict each other. You can dream of being Tony Montana if you really want.
Seeing the high amount of poor grades in various schools, the American Dream is probably to live the life in the simplest way possible...which is impossible for most.
My american dream is to live in a 20x20 trailer behind a Gas Station owned by two lesbians in Oregon near Cannon Beach. I'd live their with my 2.4 adopted kids and my dog named Lassie who is racist against Italians.
There is a 50% chance your pillow will eat you while you are sleeping.
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