American Dream Analysis

When being asked the question “What is American dream”, different kinds of people would have various answers. Kids living in this country would say “Be a rap singer, or a professional athlete, and become famous and rich like a superstar rising within a single day”. College students would answer “successfully graduate from school and find a promising job”. Scientist’s version of American dream would be “create new technologies to make a better life”. Politicians would convey their dream of true freedom and ideal policies. Even people from different cultures would have different answers in mind: white people from east coast dream to get into a private college, and come out as lawyers and doctors; black people from south are more intended to develop
Although walking different paths, they ended in similar places: Mira felt betrayed by America since she devoted her almost entire career into American education system but had to face the new rules curtailing benefits for legal immigrants like her; Bharati, the author of this article, although not yet compromised by this country politically, had undergone a hard time fitting into the community that she was supposed to be in. Undeniably, cultural difference between America and India played a significant role in Mira’s feeling of not belonging to America so much—-as the final sentence of the article says: “The price that immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation”. It is the unwillingness of cultural self-transformation that make Mira “happier to live in America as expatriate Indian than as an immigrant American”, which causes her political disadvantages and thus tears apart her American dream of living well as an Indian in America. Unsurprisingly, unwillingness of cultural self-transformation is neither the only nor the most important factor that complicates people achieving American