Achieving the American Dream
“Almost two-thirds say they live paycheck to paycheck, and 47 percent say that no matter how hard they work, they cannot get ahead” (Wallechinsky 56). The American Dream tends to be a dream of possibility that draws people from other countries to America as well as driving those already in America to work harder to be successful. The American Dream is also a dream that is achieved when someone is financially stable as well as patriotic towards their country of America, all while finding their social identity in America. Although some argue that the American Dream is not still as attainable as it was because some people who try and attain the American Dream have been unsuccessful, others insist that the American Dream is still provided by the United States of America to the extent of those who do not have setbacks put on them that hold them back from fully achieving the …show more content…
In the text Roberto Acuna Talks about Farm Workers, the author writes about how the people he worked on a farm with did not have the proper treatment by those who they worked for in the quote “But growers don’t recognize us as persons… If we had proper compensation we wouldn’t have to be working seventeen hours a day and following the crops” (Acuna 76-77) Through this quote he shows that while the lived in American and were American citizens their opportunities did not contrast to those who had hired them or those who would have worked somewhere else. The American dream could have still been provided if only they had been treated as people or American citizens who had the same rights as their bosses. In another text, Growing up Asian in America by Kessya E. Noda, the author writes about how she had to work harder to achieve her goals because of setbacks that were already put of her when their grandparents came to America as well as when she was born as a racially Japanese
“Almost two-thirds say they live paycheck to paycheck, and 47 percent say that no matter how hard they work, they cannot get ahead” (Wallechinsky 56). The American Dream tends to be a dream of possibility that draws people from other countries to America as well as driving those already in America to work harder to be successful. The American Dream is also a dream that is achieved when someone is financially stable as well as patriotic towards their country of America, all while finding their social identity in America. Although some argue that the American Dream is not still as attainable as it was because some people who try and attain the American Dream have been unsuccessful, others insist that the American Dream is still provided by the United States of America to the extent of those who do not have setbacks put on them that hold them back from fully achieving the …show more content…
In the text Roberto Acuna Talks about Farm Workers, the author writes about how the people he worked on a farm with did not have the proper treatment by those who they worked for in the quote “But growers don’t recognize us as persons… If we had proper compensation we wouldn’t have to be working seventeen hours a day and following the crops” (Acuna 76-77) Through this quote he shows that while the lived in American and were American citizens their opportunities did not contrast to those who had hired them or those who would have worked somewhere else. The American dream could have still been provided if only they had been treated as people or American citizens who had the same rights as their bosses. In another text, Growing up Asian in America by Kessya E. Noda, the author writes about how she had to work harder to achieve her goals because of setbacks that were already put of her when their grandparents came to America as well as when she was born as a racially Japanese