The American dream
What is the American dream?
According to Oxford language, it is “the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.”
It is the reason why so many people risk their lives just to come to America: the American dream.
But once people finally make their way to America, they realize that the American dream is a false reality.
Racism. Discrimination. Hatred.
These problems are still prevalent in our lives to this day.
From Native Americans to Muslims, America is built on the pain and lives of “immigrants,” even if they were here before Europeans.
In her poem, “My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears,” Mohja Kahf writes,
“An affront to American porcelain,
a contamination of American Standards
by something foreign and unhygienic
requiring civic action and possible use of disinfectant spray.”
The idea of a sparking future is crushed once immigrants realize that America is not a paradise, nor is it even close to one.
It may be a developed country, but look at the problems that plague our country. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized these problems.
So how can we help?
We start making a change.
We stand up for everyone’s rights and freedom in America.
We fight until the words, “the land of the free and home of the brave” are true.
