{"id":3248,"count":1,"description":"The\u00a0<b>American Dream<\/b>\u00a0is the national\u00a0<a title=\"Ethos\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethos\">ethos<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a title=\"United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">United States<\/a>, a set of ideals including\u00a0<a title=\"Representative democracy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Representative_democracy\">representative democracy<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Rights\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rights\">rights<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Liberty\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberty\">liberty<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Social equality\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_equality\">equality<\/a>, in which\u00a0<a title=\"Freedom\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom\">freedom<\/a>\u00a0is interpreted as the opportunity for\u00a0<a title=\"Individualism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Individualism\">individual<\/a>\u00a0prosperity and success, as well as upward\u00a0<a title=\"Socioeconomic mobility in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_United_States\">social mobility<\/a>\u00a0for oneself and their children, achieved through\u00a0<a title=\"Work ethic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Work_ethic\">hard work<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Capitalist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capitalist\">capitalist<\/a>\u00a0society with few barriers.\r\n<h2><strong>The term \"American Dream\" <\/strong><\/h2>\r\nThe term \"American Dream\"\u00a0 coine by <a title=\"James Truslow Adams\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Truslow_Adams\">James Truslow Adams<\/a>\u00a0in 1931, saying that \"life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement\" regardless of\u00a0<a title=\"Social class in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_class_in_the_United_States\">social class<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"Race and ethnicity in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States\">circumstances of birth<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-LOC_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-LOC-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nProponents of the American Dream often claim that its tenets originate from the\u00a0<a title=\"United States Declaration of Independence\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\">United States Declaration of Independence<\/a>, which states that \"<a title=\"All men are created equal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_men_are_created_equal\">all men are created equal<\/a>\" with the right to \"<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life,_liberty,_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness\">life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness<\/a>\".<sup id=\"cite_ref-vanityfair_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-vanityfair-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0<a title=\"Preamble to the United States Constitution\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">Preamble<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0<a title=\"Constitution of the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constitution_of_the_United_States\">U.S. Constitution<\/a>\u00a0is used similarly. It states that the Constitution's purpose is to, in part, \"secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity\".<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-3\">[a]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nThroughout American history, there have\u00a0 critics of its national ethos. Some critics point out that American focus on individualism and capital results in materialism, consumerism and a lack of worker solidarity.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-4\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 2015, only 10.5 percent of American workers were members of a labor union.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-5\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> The American Dream has also\u00a0 criticize as a product of <a title=\"American exceptionalism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_exceptionalism\">American exceptionalism<\/a>, as it does not acknowledge the hardships many Americans face, namely in regards to the legacies of\u00a0<a title=\"Slavery in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slavery_in_the_United_States\">American slavery<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Genocide of indigenous peoples\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples\">Native American genocide<\/a>, as well as other examples of discriminatory violence.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-6\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n\r\nBelief in the American Dream\u00a0 often inversely associated with rates of national dissolutionment. Evidence indicates that upward economic mobility has declined and income inequality has risen in the United States in recent decades.<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-:0-7\">[6]<\/a><\/sup> In 2020, a poll only 54 percent of US adults think the American Dream\u00a0 attainable for them, 28 percent believed it was unattainable for them personally, while 9 percent rejected the idea of the American Dream entirely. Younger generations were also less likely to believe in the American Dream than their older counterparts.<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-8\">[7]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n<h2><span id=\"History\" class=\"mw-headline\">History<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<table class=\"box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content\" role=\"presentation\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"mbox-image\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1c\/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg\/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png\" alt=\"[icon]\" width=\"20\" height=\"14\" data-file-width=\"44\" data-file-height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"mbox-text\">\r\n<div class=\"mbox-text-span\">This section\u00a0<b>needs expansion<\/b>. You can help by\u00a0<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=American_Dream&amp;action=edit&amp;section=\">adding to it<\/a>.\u00a0<span class=\"date-container\"><i>(<span class=\"date\">November 2022<\/span>)<\/i><\/span><\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\nThe meaning of the American Dream has changed over the course of history, and includes both personal components such as home ownership and upward mobility as well as a global vision for cultural hegemony and diplomacy.\r\n<h3><span id=\"18th_century\" class=\"mw-headline\">18th century<\/span><\/h3>\r\nHistorically, the Dream originated in colonial mystique regarding\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Frontier Thesis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frontier_Thesis\">frontier life<\/a>. As\u00a0<a title=\"John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore\">John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"List of colonial governors of Virginia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia\">colonial Governor of Virginia<\/a>, noted in 1774, the Americans \"for ever imagine the Lands further off are still better than those upon which they are already settled\". He added that, \"if they attained Paradise, they would move on if they heard of a better place farther west\".<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream#cite_note-9\">[8]<\/a><\/sup>\r\n<h3><span id=\"19th_century\" class=\"mw-headline\">19th century<\/span><\/h3>\r\nMany well-educated Germans who fled the failed\u00a0<a title=\"German revolutions of 1848\u20131849\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849\">1848 revolution<\/a> find the United States more politically free than their homeland. Which they believed to be a hierarchical and aristocratic society that determined the ceiling for their aspirations. 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