American Dream
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The American Dream is the ideal that every person in the United States can achieve prosperity, success, and upward social mobility through hard work and opportunity.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
cultural ideal
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national ethos → social concept → |
| associatedWith |
United States
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| critiquedFor |
declining social mobility
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economic inequality → ignoring structural inequality → overemphasis on individual responsibility → racial inequality → |
| describedIn |
The Epic of America
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| emergedInPeriod |
early 20th century
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| firstPopularizedBy |
James Truslow Adams
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| hasAspect |
civic equality
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economic aspiration → political freedom → social aspiration → |
| hasCoreIdea |
equality of opportunity
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financial security → homeownership → individualism → merit-based advancement → opportunity for all → personal freedom → prosperity through hard work → pursuit of happiness → self-made success → social mobility → success regardless of social class → upward social mobility → |
| hasDefinition |
ideal that every person in the United States can achieve success and upward mobility through hard work and opportunity
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| hasMotto |
anyone can make it
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land of opportunity → rags to riches → |
| hasSymbol |
car ownership
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college education → single-family home → small business ownership → upwardly mobile family → |
| influencedBy |
Declaration of Independence
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Enlightenment ideals → Protestant work ethic → United States Constitution → capitalism → frontier myth → immigration narratives → liberalism → |
| relatedTo |
American exceptionalism
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American identity → American nationalism → economic opportunity → homeownership in the United States → immigration to the United States → middle class ideal → social mobility in the United States → |
| representedIn |
American cinema
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American literature → American political rhetoric → popular culture → |