Comments on: Whose American Dream? http://miestilomag.com/whos-american-dream/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whos-american-dream Bilingual Magazine for Latinos in Metro Detroit Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gabe Gonzalez http://miestilomag.com/whos-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Gabe Gonzalez Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:49:05 +0000 http://miestilomag.com/?p=1040#comment-51 Wow, what else can I say after how Victor responded. He pretty much summed it up for us. I agree with everything he said, and most especially your article Jose. For me, growing up, the American Dream meant status, property, position in life. It had to do with what you had that others did not have. Now, at my age, I realized that teh american dream is pretty much everything both of you posted. It's about what resources you can use in this country to help you reach a point in your life where you are happy and content. Even if it means only making 35k a year, but you are working in something where you can make your own hours, time and at times work from home. If you want to work for a fortune 500 company or a soup kitchen, as long as you are happy with the choice you make, thats the American Dream. Being able to come onto a site like this, or facebook and say what you want to say, thats the American Dream.. Wow, what else can I say after how Victor responded. He pretty much summed it up for us. I agree with everything he said, and most especially your article Jose. For me, growing up, the American Dream meant status, property, position in life. It had to do with what you had that others did not have. Now, at my age, I realized that teh american dream is pretty much everything both of you posted. It’s about what resources you can use in this country to help you reach a point in your life where you are happy and content. Even if it means only making 35k a year, but you are working in something where you can make your own hours, time and at times work from home. If you want to work for a fortune 500 company or a soup kitchen, as long as you are happy with the choice you make, thats the American Dream. Being able to come onto a site like this, or facebook and say what you want to say, thats the American Dream..

]]> By: Victor Martinez http://miestilomag.com/whos-american-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Victor Martinez Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:20:21 +0000 http://miestilomag.com/?p=1040#comment-50 Jose, great article. I was just talking with my wife about this the other day. For me, being an immigrant to the U.S. and after being here for over 5 years, the American Dream goes hand in hand with the 'Land of Opportunity'. After working in the automotive industry for 9 years and after several moves throughout the Midwest, picking up our lives and starting all over again in the next place, I've come to understand that the American Dream is not what I used to believe. The recent economic downturn has given me a new meaning of this 'dream'. It is not about working for somebody else for 30 (or more) years, hoping that the source will never run out and that a company will take care of you and provide for you and yours. It is not about coming in here to have somebody else tell me how many hours am I going to work and when will I be able to see my family. It is not about somebody else telling me if and when am I allowed to take vacation. It is not about drowning in debt and barely making ends meet and losing sleep over whether my employer will dispose of me tomorrow. It is not about somebody dictating the kind of house we are going to live in and the kind of life we are going to provide for our children and their children. It is not about settling for what life throws at you and accepting that there is nothing greater. For me is far greater than that. This country is filled with opportunity for ANYBODY that decides to grasp it and become SOMEBODY. The American Dream is about the FREEDOM we all have to take control over our lives and to live an abudant life. Jose, great article. I was just talking with my wife about this the other day. For me, being an immigrant to the U.S. and after being here for over 5 years, the American Dream goes hand in hand with the ‘Land of Opportunity’. After working in the automotive industry for 9 years and after several moves throughout the Midwest, picking up our lives and starting all over again in the next place, I’ve come to understand that the American Dream is not what I used to believe. The recent economic downturn has given me a new meaning of this ‘dream’.

It is not about working for somebody else for 30 (or more) years, hoping that the source will never run out and that a company will take care of you and provide for you and yours.

It is not about coming in here to have somebody else tell me how many hours am I going to work and when will I be able to see my family.

It is not about somebody else telling me if and when am I allowed to take vacation.

It is not about drowning in debt and barely making ends meet and losing sleep over whether my employer will dispose of me tomorrow.

It is not about somebody dictating the kind of house we are going to live in and the kind of life we are going to provide for our children and their children.

It is not about settling for what life throws at you and accepting that there is nothing greater.

For me is far greater than that. This country is filled with opportunity for ANYBODY that decides to grasp it and become SOMEBODY. The American Dream is about the FREEDOM we all have to take control over our lives and to live an abudant life.

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