American Dream In The Film Real Women Have Curves

Many people who immigrate to the United States do so because they wish to actualize their visions of fulfilling the American Dream. The commonly referred to "American Dream" is mentioned quite often in popular literature, art and speech defining the mindset that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve ultimate success through hard work and dedication (Library of Congress). Although there is a perception that America is always fair regardless of gender, class, education or traditional culture, many writers can coincide with the film Real Women Have Curves that those who fall outside of societal norms must work twice as hard to achieve the least bit of success. Even with the United States being referred to as a melting pot, society makes it so that there is still a fine line between white people and people who don’t have a similar European look, regardless of having citizenship or not. In the film, Real Women Have Curves, viewers follow a Hispanic family raising their daughter in California with traditional and …show more content…
Only in the late 1990’s were women still seen as being lesser than men, whereas today there’s a smaller gap, but still a separateness. Karen J. Hossfeld speaks up about how people are discriminated in her piece, “Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley”, focusing on women, but intertwining how gender and class have an impact on how people are seen through society’s lense. She makes a point that in the late 1990’s alone women were still paid less because working was only a secondary job to them, where their real job was being there for the family (Hossfeld 211), so while there is improvement there’s still more to be made. Women shouldn’t have to be seen as any lesser than men because they are just as useful and capable as men, but all this goes to show there isn’t a fair playing game when it comes to achieving the American