Mackenzie+Jones

America

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 What does it mean to be an American ? What does America  look like and sound like? How do we  see ourselves  in the world? How does the rest of the world see us ? =====



"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…And one fine morning-" - The Great Gatsby

__Reflection:__

The American  dream <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> has <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">changed <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. It used to be about getting a college education, a steady job, and a nice house with a <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">family <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. But now the dream is about <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">fulfillment <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. Its about shaping ones own <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">destiny <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. It is having the flexibility to do your own work and the ability to have a career as an expression of who you are as a <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">person <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. The new <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">American <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> dream is not as <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">measurable <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> as the old one. We live in a marketplace of <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">identities <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">, none of them <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">genuine <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">, and none of them <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">tangible <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. We should craft the dream of ourselves, <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">independent <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> from the age old but contently changing <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">American <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> dream. The <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">American <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> dream is all around us, but the individual identity is <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">separate <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> from materialism and the most honest <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">American <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">dreamer <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> is the one that dreams it themselves. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">America <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> is made up of different ideas, <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">cultures <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> and identities, all of which should be <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">understood <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">, <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">appreciated <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> and <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">accepted <span style="color: #1900ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Wikipedia's Definition of The American Dream

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