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Originally Posted by filtherton
It could just as easily be said that most self help presupposes self worth, not a guarantee of personal success.
I see the emptiness of the dream. It's reflected in the increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor and the shrinking middle class. Your twenty dollared relatives could have just as easily toiled in obscurity just below the poverty line for the rest of their lives.
How does this not describe the american dream?
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And the poverty line is better here in the US than it is in many other countries, even our southern neighbor Mexico. Success means something different to you obviously. For some it's as simple as being able to have an apartment, accessible healthcare, accessible education, and access to a labor market that pays wages 10x better than where they came.
It does describe the American dream, but what does the American dream mean to you? For my relatives who came over here it meant an opportunity. That's it. Success is not guaranteed. It's presupposed that here it is greater than 0% opporutnity that they had in their homeland.
As they say in the dieting and excercising infomercials, Results Not Typical.
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