Essay On Achieving The American Dream

Since the beginning of time, people have been driven to succeed. They have wanted to be financially independent, have their own property, to achieve personal fulfillment, and overall be successful; the basis of the American Dream. Regardless of where you are born or what class you’re in, you have the possibility of moving upward. Both native-born Americans and American immigrants pursue and can achieve the American dream. Now, many think that the American dream has died, or is progressively dying as time goes on. Even still, for some the American dream is still very much real, and very much a goal for them. These people are the poor, and refugees who come over from other countries. They both strive to achieve the American dream through sacrifice,
The U.S. is ranked among the lowest for upwards mobility, meaning the difficulty for those who live in poverty to escape poverty is near impossible. The middle class is under the impression that the dream is gone, while minorities still believe. They are told to “work longer” or “try harder,” but the truth of the situation is that the "poor stay poor," and there is no way to even the playing field. A huge inconvenience towards the poor is the lack of support they get from each other. “American poverty is darkened by loneliness,” Girdhardas states, “there is no support group.” Another factor fighting against them is that the average native-born american will earn 84 cents for every dollar earned by the average naturalized citizen, and a citizen of colour will be chosen over someone who is white to provide ethnicity in the workplace. They have to take part in a unfair competition for the same jobs. To sum it up, despite the American dream being as real as it was years ago for those who live in poverty, it is tremendously harder for them to achieve it due to all the factors fighting against them. "The dream is available for those who work for it," they say, but they will have to work twice as hard as their foreign