I know not everyone here is American, but the idea of the American Dream seems to have spread to other countries as well. Most people define the American Dream as having a loving spouse, a nice house, a middle-class income, 2.5 kids, and a dog. What is Citizen's opinion on the American Dream?
The American Dream(TM) is a myth.
It's rumored that Albert Einstein once took a mathematical stab at the definition, scribbling AD = CrAP on a chalkboard before hurridly wiping it out of existence with his sleeve.
Allen Ginsberg, who saw it and heard the mumbled "Doctor Strangelove uber alles," recorded in his biography his belief that C stood for Consumerism, r for relativity, and that AP meant Appetizer Pizza.
Isn't the american dream to conquer the world and destroy everything that doesn't worship the usa and it's hypocritical "values"?
>a loving spouse
Lol @ americans..
We call that "a loving wife" here. Take your spouse and shove it up your ass.
Of late the American Dream is "Get your fat ass on TV and get famous"
The American Dream is - or so I thought - the classic rise from rags to riches. At least, 'american dream' is used this way around here. What you described is usually referred to as "American Way of Life" (the term itself coming from the interwar period), and is generally treated with more or less mild derision. As is the "american dream", which is the least believable piece of propaganda bullshit of the century.
We're the least kids-wanting nation of the continent, marriages have been declining at a free-fall rate, and I must admit I am quite pleased with this development. Why? Because a) excess population is real, and it's a problem, despite conservative's cry for 10000 kids per wife and b) because I think marriage as such as an obsolete (and mainly ecclasiastic) institution.
>>Lol @ americans..
We call that "a loving wife" here. Take your spouse and shove it up your ass.
So do we you fucking idiot. It's called a synonym. What an ignorant git.
The American dream is to speed around in a car with a stolen 12 pack of beer telling the clerk to go fuck himself. That, and drinking the beer with a friend and fucking some random chick you picked up. This is coming from a Canadian.
Wins to an extent.
As someone who was born and still lives in the U.S. (although I do wish to get out ASAP), I can say that this so-called "American dream" is merely a propaganda tactic -- some kind of idea that things are more different (and, heh, "more better" [sic, grammar nazis]) in the U.S. than they are anywhere else. Evidently, this is wrong.
However, the idea works -- people keep churning out kids and working in their mundane jobs, dying unsatisfied... all in the name of liberty, shitty beer, and big tits.
The U.S. is a country incredibly overrated by its own citizenry. Honestly, I have no clue why so many people in my age group would want to stay here.
But, to return to the point... the American Dream does exist... but merely as an idea, and a horrible one at that; it's essentially turning a blind eye to the future, because, hey, we're all gonna end up going to heaven anyway, right?
Same poster here. Actually, I answered my own question.
"The U.S. is a country incredibly overrated by its own citizenry. Honestly, I have no clue why so many people in my age group would want to stay here."
"However, the idea works..."
Dur, lol. -_- It is just a matter of seeing past the bullshit, but when you're raised with this Wal-Mart mentality, it's awfully hard to avoid.
>>9
No it's not. It's just bullshit PC language. Fuck off.
>>8
Lets not forget the dumb asses that want to cry about the sanctity of marage to jusitify bashing homsexuals that want union or married status so ther dependents arnt shit out of luck if they die or get disabled from a accedent. Then agean this dumb shit comes from the same kind of people that aired Who Wants to Marry a Millionare.