I think one of the biggest ideas that could cover every aspect of America would be the idea of a dream. Everyone has heard of America as having the American Dream. When that phrase was fist coined it meant leaving your home country and coming to America to get a job, start a family, and have enough money from that job to support your family. The American dream is what made people want to travel to America in the first place. However over the years that idea about an American dream has changed significantly. Now it no longer means having enough money to support anyone, it means never stop getting money. Even people who are American citizens now dream about having more and more money flow into their bank account.
The economy now has dramatically changed how people across the world see the American dream. They see people like Mark Zuckerburg who have a tremendous amount of wealth but agree to give a good portion of it to other people. They see people like the man with the “golden Voice” who is on the streets with next to nothing, and they see people like Justin Beiber who became famous off a voice. Even though the American dream is very loosely define in the present, I think that the idea of even having a dream is what makes America America.
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