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The American "Dream"

Date Submitted: 05/01/2004 09:25:24
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 2 pages (675 words)
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The popular belief in the American Dream is more than a red herring fallacy used to win political debates. It is a clever tool used to lure the penniless, foreign, and otherwise subordinate peoples into having faith in a life of wage slavery. The American Dream is a strange concept, bringing to mind visions of painted goddesses with large books holding telegraph wires. It is felt in the stirrings of gullible American's hearts during the …

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