The American Dream

The american dream is the belief of achieving ones goals no matter what adversity you face. The american dream is the ability to make anything of yourself regardless of race or social status. anybody in the United States is able to do whatever they want as long as they work hard enough to get it. There is nothing such as a caste system to prevent people from achieving their goals. To me wealth consists of not only the physical cash you own but all of your assets. this ranges from physical assets to ideologies and emotions. American's generally apply the american dream to themselves and when they see wealth they see a person who has worked hard and earned it and on the flip side see people in poverty as people who dont work hard. I think that the american dream is an allusion however and that although to an extent a person can get fairly far on their own, without connections you wont fully achieve your potential. also just because a person lacks money doesnt mean they are poor because some of the happiest people on earth that are rich in spirit have next to nothing.