The American Dream Is Success Essay

“Success is the American Dream and that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize”, once said Susana Martinez. Many people describe the American Dream in that way, and many describe it in a different way. In the end, the American Dream has a very different meaning to different people. From education to death, everyone has one thing in common, a dream. Interviewing different age groups of people showed me the many differences and similarities there are between my American Dream and theirs. “The American dream never ends, there is always something different”, is the definition of my father at the age 34. I, knowing him my whole lifetime, know everything he says, has a lot of meaning behind it. When I asked him what the American dream meant to him, he went into specific details as in saying how when he and my family came to the U.S., they wanted a better life for themselves and their family. “One day of work can be enough to feed us for the whole week here, but one week of work is barely enough to go by eating one day, that’s why having a stable job, was a must coming …show more content…
Now in my Latino culture, family is everything, so her answer did not seem out of the ordinary, but when I asked her what the American dream meant to her, she answered with something similar but yet very different. She started out by answering that her kids would have a legal status here in this country to be able to work here legally and support their own family. She made it very clear how she wanted them to “have an easier life and be able to have their own dreams come true as well.” Comparing her answers to mine, I can see she has already lived her own life, so her goal is for her own family to have their goals accomplished. She doesn’t base her American dream on her, but her family. For my American dream everything is mostly based on