How Does The American Dream Affect Society

The American Dream is defined differently throughout various generations, cultures, and environments. For many immigrants, their American Dream is for their current or future family. They work hard and struggle to come to America so that their children can live lavishly and have a better life and education. Being born in America and trying to achieve the American Dream is different. Depending on your environment, you either know hard work or you don’t. Coming from an upper-class family, you don’t struggle to pay for things like college. You won’t know things like hard work or independence. You would rely on your parent’s money to get through life and expect to be rich without work. On the other hand, if you’re coming from a lower-class family,
It’s not because they won’t work for it or because they’re distracted by their phones, it’s because they won’t have the same privileges as adults today. Smartphones are being blamed for being too distracting but adults forget that technology is the future. Dan Kadlec says, “With mobile technology, young professionals can get their jobs done at the beach.” As we evolve, we discover new and efficient ways to do work and technology just happens to be the way we do it. Just because it’s not the same way as the older generation, doesn’t mean it’s not valid. There are many factors that come into attaining the American Dream, but the main element is
People can work as hard as they can but will never end up making it because they’re not given that opening. America is known to be the land of opportunity but that doesn’t mean opportunity for everyone. In Robert Shiller's article, The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’, he says “But the last decade has shown that with a little encouragement, many can easily become excessively lustful about homeownership and wealth...” When people have that support system, it motivates them to work harder to make it. But again, the lower-class is not given the support they need which means they don’t get anything done. In return, they’re blamed for not working hard enough, but in actuality, it’s not their fault because they were never given that