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Originally Posted by Skybird
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-858906.html
Stiglitz: This belief is still powerful, but the American dream has become a myth. The life chances of a young US citizen are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any other advanced industrial country for which there is data. The belief in the American dream is reinforced by anecdotes, by dramatic examples of individuals who have made it from the bottom to the top -- but what matters most are an individual's life chances. The belief in the American dream is not supported by the data.
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Disagree. The American Dream is still there, the system here allows for rags to riches with more ease than ever. Unfortunately, the growing socialist trends of our population are pushing the dream farther away. Why "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" when you can whine about discrimination and insist on receiving aid from the government.