The American dream, "It depends on the government to create the conditions in which it can work" (Jennifer Hochschild; Demographic Change and Democratic Education), but only in this do we see that it also makes failure seem to be at a personal level. This is even when that failure is the result of any public policies. Throughout history, some do not get to participate in the American dream, they have been denied participation—those without property, women, African Americans, Asian immigrants, and the
