the bullshit idea our culture sells us that if we just try really hard we can acheive anything and can be anyone we want to be. it doesn't take into account class status, race, gender, or the fact that our country is mostly run by white males. thus, the "american dream" is not attainable for most, and they are left to feel worthless and looked down about if they cannot acheive it.
by lyndaiglesias429 April 14, 2004
Americans think they have freedom, but all they really have is the ability to bend over and take it from their government. Up the ass. Yeah.
by Jwstyn March 30, 2004
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American Dreams
All of which are American Dreams
by zutroy September 14, 2004
The belief that you will live in ease and harmony by recieving a great amount of money with as little effort as possible.
This belief is most commonly followed by people 20+ who wake up one day and realize/believe that is is too late to go to college and find a job that you enjoy. So they sit around on their ass all day, go to work at the gas station/Burger King, then on the way home in their '81 Ford they pick up like 10 lottery tickets with a day's earnings and go home and yell at their kids and wait till 10 o'clock to check their lotto numbers. Then they lose, blame all of their troubles on some war being fought in some distant country they can't pronounce and go to sleep. Repeat every day until retirement.
This belief is most commonly followed by people 20+ who wake up one day and realize/believe that is is too late to go to college and find a job that you enjoy. So they sit around on their ass all day, go to work at the gas station/Burger King, then on the way home in their '81 Ford they pick up like 10 lottery tickets with a day's earnings and go home and yell at their kids and wait till 10 o'clock to check their lotto numbers. Then they lose, blame all of their troubles on some war being fought in some distant country they can't pronounce and go to sleep. Repeat every day until retirement.
If I won the lottery, I'd have everything I ever wanted, and all I'd ever do is sit around and play Xbox and never do anything to contribute to the world around me.
by Drunken Hobbit October 31, 2004
American dream a'merikan dri:m - the idea that by applying the laws of the jungle - survival of the fittest, either everybody would get rich, or all the poor people would die out.
by maxprodanov February 21, 2006
Annoying hyper-patriotic crap that America tries to force-feed the rest of the world on a regular basis. Maybe if they didn't commit mass genocide on the Natives, break several of their own promises and live on stolen land it would actually have some sort of honour to it <3
Judge: (to President Bush) You have killed thousands of Iraqi militants and civilians alike, stole their land and oil resources, and to top it all off you blamed it all on a false claim.
Bush: But it's the American Way! (long, dull, over-emotional and hypocritical speech about the American Dream)
Person: People and fish living together... yeah yeah whatever! He's killed far more people than Saddam ever did now sentence him!
Judge: But he was only trying to achieve the American Dream...
Person: Yeah, you're right! Let's raise the flag and honour ourselves for the fact that we totally intervened and devastated Iraq! Saddam WAS evil (and made life bad) and although we have now made Iraq MUCH worse it doesn't matter because it's the American way! *raises flag*
(Definition for American Dream, the)
Bush: But it's the American Way! (long, dull, over-emotional and hypocritical speech about the American Dream)
Person: People and fish living together... yeah yeah whatever! He's killed far more people than Saddam ever did now sentence him!
Judge: But he was only trying to achieve the American Dream...
Person: Yeah, you're right! Let's raise the flag and honour ourselves for the fact that we totally intervened and devastated Iraq! Saddam WAS evil (and made life bad) and although we have now made Iraq MUCH worse it doesn't matter because it's the American way! *raises flag*
(Definition for American Dream, the)
by LooseLipz June 17, 2006
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