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The American Dream In the continent of Asia where I used to live, the American dream has brought to my attention to live and work here in America. Certainly, there are three categories that I want to share to which this American dream for me is well and alive and these are as follows: Due to poverty, due to lack of employment and due to family responsibility. First category is due to poverty. Anyone in my hometown in Asia wants to come in America because of poverty and to have American dream. I worked in the hotel and luckily the one month salary in my hometown as professional was just 5 to 6 days of work here in America. I definitely agree that American dream is well and alive when I started working and …show more content…
The over population of other countries, corruption, national calamities and political self-interest makes the people living condition become poorer. I have seen many ethnicity working around the streets as I was driving with my American dream car; it is either outside is hot and too cold outside many engineers and construction workers are moving just to have an American dream stick in their mind. Second category is lack of employment. The bad economy and brought by different calamities drives people around to find a job in my home country. Most of us are certain that once there’s no job available our thought change for the better and this is to go abroad like going to America to have American dream. The economy of America even in recession was still well and alive and never become stagnant at all. There are lots of jobs even just a washer, gardener and mowing the yard is a part of ordinary people to achieved their American …show more content…
Instead of getting an outside company cleaner to clean the house, they clean by themselves and family as a whole. That being said from the Boston Herald, “an examination of the last 30 years reveals that innovation, technology, business management improvements and the globalization of markets have enabled many more Americans to become millionaires.” I believe that family responsibility is the main reason why I worked hard to make their dreams comes true also as a child of a proud American citizen parents of United States of America; the place of the brave and the land of the free. It is now a simple idea or thought to everybody that life has many thorns to cut before achieving an American dream like a thorns of poverty, thorns of employment and thorns of family responsibility; and that has a common denominator of sacrifice, determination and struggle for success in

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