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American Dream

The is referred to by many people as the reason to come to America. It is, or so they say, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Unfortunately they are incorrect, there truly is no , it is all an illusion given to us by our founding fathers as a reason for the inequality in which people are treated. I have lived in this country for 16 years now and have all the patriotic bullshit about how we give everyone equal opportunity and how everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. I just laugh when I read this. Throughout our country’s 300-year history, it is all about raising one person over the other. It started with the movement of the Native Americans. They were here before ...

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but there were ways around it and everyone knew it. No one ever said any persecution of the black man is wrong for years and why not, because it was more convenient for us to ignore it. Now the people from Latin American countries have come in homes of freedom, and better lives. We tell them they have to speak English, since they are in America, but I do not recall being taught the language of the Native Americans. Since they were here first should you not have to learn that language?
Americans define success as how much money you have. Success is not how much money you have, or what you have, or even if you are happy with what you have. Success is being happy with who you are. People pay surgeons tons of money to look younger than they are, pay very well to have a fake chin, or to have skin like a celebrity. These people think they are successful because they have the money to do this, and they look better than you do, however these people can not come to terms with who ...

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Added: 2/19/2004 04:59:36 PM
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