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Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?

Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?

Opportunity is the crux of the American idea. Opportunity is what the New World has always represented: struggle, risk, self-determination, and the hope of spiritual and material progress. Even now, to new immigrants, that or something like it is the pull—and for them at least, it is no false promise…But is America any longer a land of opportunity for the people born here? The evidence, such as it is, points to a surprising and dispiriting answer: no, not especially.

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  1. Saturday November 7, 2009,  Человек

    Забавно. :-)

  2. Saturday November 7, 2009,  Cтропальщик

    потрясающие идеи…нам перенять бы …великолепно.

  3. Saturday November 7, 2009,  Строитель

    Да, Именно так и было!:))

  4. Saturday November 7, 2009,  vtuse

    Автор молодец, правда я нашёл несколько грамматических ошибок в тексте…

  5. Wednesday September 30, 2009,  anony

    has it ever been? i mean immigrants come from all over the world to “america” to have better life, to get away from their corrupted government or horrible living situation. but when they get here all they do is work and work. and their children have to work even harder. opportunity in america is working and if you dont work then you dont get anything. thats how a capitalistic nation works.

  6. Tuesday September 1, 2009,  ANGELA GUIDERA

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO >:]

  7. Monday October 6, 2008,  Anonymous

    yes if you are willing to start a pornographic website…

  8. Monday October 6, 2008,  Damien

    internet has become the new land of opportunity

  9. Monday October 6, 2008,  JM

    yes, and disparity. just because the door is unlocked, people may not know that it opens. a nation where a person can be someone from nothing is great, but when you have a place that chooses to divide itself, i worry. what’s wrong with being American, just as the British are British, or the French French, rather than afro-guynayan-hispanic-italian-american

  10. Monday October 6, 2008,  Obama Mamma 08

    has it ever been? again a question with an answer inside. America is the land of greed and of people with good timing. opportunities lie in poorer states

  11. Monday October 6, 2008,  John Galt

    sure, if you leave your moral compass at home

  12. Monday October 6, 2008,  Anonymous

    Al-Queda certainly seems to think so

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