El sueño Americano
Con lo siguiente quiero resumir muchas cosas, lastimosamente solo tiene sentido en español:
"Estoy viviendo el sueño americano - Me la paso todo el día con sueño después de tanto trabajar."
The so called American dream is indeed a fallacy that can (and is) very rapidly become the American nightmare. People come here with hopes of a brighter future and opportunity. If you are coming with a set mind and knowing that it involves a lot of work and sacrifice (you are giving up everything in your life, making a very high bet in which you might lose it all) you are off to a good start in this game. Being aware of the costs that involve coming here is key, but is that price you pay even justified in this post 911 world?
The whole notion of the "american dream" falls short when that dream involves a longing for "security" and "wellbeing". Most people associate pursuing this dream with purely economic and social benefits. Achieving something that you would have never even dreamed of in your home country.
But what if due to gas prices you cannot afford to drive your car anylonger, or due to the paranoia around terrorism you start loosing your freedoms as an individual? Such things are happening in the US as we speak and that's where the american dream starts becoming a nightmare, because you no longer have the freedoms you were trying to find by coming to North America. Especially the USA and not so much Canada (yet...)
In short: The American Dream will become the American Nightmare in this post 911 world full of paranoia and growing hatred against immigrants in the US.
4 comments:
y tu ¿estás viviendo tu sueño americano?
No es mi suenio americano, no tengo uno ni me interesa tenerlo. Es un paso mas hacia completar mi suenio de verdad.
En medio del sueno americano somos los esclavos modernistas del primer mundo.
Ya nadie nos obliga a trabajar, al contrario nos obligamos a hacerlo para poder disfrazar el alma de posesiones materiales. En Norteamerica, los paises en vias de desarrollo se avalanzan por la pesadilla, porque al fin y al cabo no hay nadie que pueda poner en entre dicho la "dignidad humana".
Cuanta razon tienes! Yo vine aca solo por mi marido, no porque me atrayera esto, pero lo que estoy viviendo aqui es un sueño, si, un sueño de pesadilla!
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