Why Do Immigrants Seek The American Dream
Over the Border
In life, there are different opportunities and different ways to live. Different countries suffer in their own unique way, depending on how society has put them to be. People who don’t have the same opportunities as people beyond middle-class, seek for an alternative to their lifestyles, what their looking for is the famous American Dream. This dream may take many different forms for many different people, yet is the same concept. The American Dream is the concept that gives out an idea of a better life; it gives out faith, and a way to escape an unwanted life.
The main reasons why immigrants seek the American Dream are because the lack of job opportunities in their home countries. Some other people try to escape from governments …show more content…
Other people struggle crossing the border by walking in the middle of a dessert for several weeks or even months. Some other people try to enter the U.S. by hiding inside a truck load or travel really long distances by boat. They survive hunger and thirst to get to the American soil, leaving everything they know behind. Many of those immigrants sacrificed their jobs, their relationships, their education, their culture, and languages at their home countries to start their new life in America and succeed in reaching their …show more content…
Some people are "Permanently stranded in North America because of destiny" (51) like Mukherjee writes in her essay. I agree with Mukherjee because some immigrants live a hard life, and those people live with no money or a home permanently; but still, they want to stay in the U.S because they still have the hope to achieve the "American Dream". The American Dream that opened a new door which led them into hope. Immigrants have the opportunity to give their children a better life. They have a dream that next generations will be better. A dream to a new world that now they might call
In life, there are different opportunities and different ways to live. Different countries suffer in their own unique way, depending on how society has put them to be. People who don’t have the same opportunities as people beyond middle-class, seek for an alternative to their lifestyles, what their looking for is the famous American Dream. This dream may take many different forms for many different people, yet is the same concept. The American Dream is the concept that gives out an idea of a better life; it gives out faith, and a way to escape an unwanted life.
The main reasons why immigrants seek the American Dream are because the lack of job opportunities in their home countries. Some other people try to escape from governments …show more content…
Other people struggle crossing the border by walking in the middle of a dessert for several weeks or even months. Some other people try to enter the U.S. by hiding inside a truck load or travel really long distances by boat. They survive hunger and thirst to get to the American soil, leaving everything they know behind. Many of those immigrants sacrificed their jobs, their relationships, their education, their culture, and languages at their home countries to start their new life in America and succeed in reaching their …show more content…
Some people are "Permanently stranded in North America because of destiny" (51) like Mukherjee writes in her essay. I agree with Mukherjee because some immigrants live a hard life, and those people live with no money or a home permanently; but still, they want to stay in the U.S because they still have the hope to achieve the "American Dream". The American Dream that opened a new door which led them into hope. Immigrants have the opportunity to give their children a better life. They have a dream that next generations will be better. A dream to a new world that now they might call