Title: Why did people believe in the American Dream? - Quora
Headings: Why did people believe in the American Dream?
Why did people believe in the American Dream?
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Yanna Smith
Lu Leng
Sridhar Sharma

Content: If you think it's those other things, you're living some other dream. Ask an immigrant to the USA instead of a poor person or a middle class person. Ask an immigrant who's come from a poor slum of Dacca or Lagos. Ask a kid whose parents slaved away to scrape up money to send them here to study something meaningful. It's funny that the people least equipped to access the American Dream are American-born citizens. Ask an immigrant and you usually get a different story. Even today, with increasing wealth disparity, the fact is, the US still has a massive middle class. Most of the people born today, will live their entire lives at or above the middle class mark. What is different are the pressures -- both real and self-inflicted -- that individual Americans have to deal with in achieving the American Dream. What are those self-inflicted pressures?