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Old 01-07-2008, 10:52 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Just under 5 minutes. A lot of valid points are noted. What do you think?

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Canne see the vid, MM, but if it's George, they're valid.
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Canne see the vid, MM, but if it's George, they're valid.
Same here. Agree Jettie. If George says it it will have more truisms than any other source I can think of.
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So, where does this term, "American Dream" come from?

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It is believed that Adams coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epics of America. But Truslow's coinage of the phrase had an entirely different (and much broader) meaning than what it has come to mean today.

The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
Link: James Truslow Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes, a Wiki source but I went to Wiki after reading about this person coining the term in another article.
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Good clip. Satire, but closer to the truth than fiction IMO.
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