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UMass Boston Alumni 

The American Dream is a marketing device. In that sense, there is no American Dream. It is a manipulation that isolates us, belittles our individual human dreams, and promotes the belief that we become unique by becoming like everyone else. For many, the American Dream is owning a house. Pretty frigging lame, if you ask me. It wasn't always and won't always be defined by home ownership. There is no such thing as an American Dream. There are dreams that people have - American people, French people, Russian people. And if the people who dream only of great wealth and power would stop poisoning the human dream pool with their self serving non-sense, and if people were less eager to buy into their BS, America and the world would be a better place than it is today.