The American Dream: traditionelle synspunkter og skiftende opfattelser

Account for the traditional view of the ‘American Dream’ as it is depicted in the text ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’!

Americans were born with freedom in their blood, but money has to be earned, and the traditional American Dream is a set of ideals in which freedom encompasses the opportunity of success and wealth, and an ascending social mobility obtained through hard work. The term of the American Dream was formed during the economic recovery in the United States.

The traditional Dream includes a house in the suburbs, two cars, two children, a stay-at-home mom and a gainfully employed father, but now the Dream is being revised.

As it is depicted in the article, the game show ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ are able to make people obtaining success in which of a huge amount of money is included, if they just are provided with a little knowledge and a lot of luck. This way of earning money definitely appeals to the American audience, since the millions seem so easily accessible to them – and because of this, industry, the most elementary and traditional values of achieving the Dream, has been exterminated in the progress of achieving the Dream.