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Do you have a dream? I Have a Dream Do you know what American Dream is? ﹡ American Dream is the belief that everyone in the United States has the chance to achieve success and prosperity. For ordinary people, it means a happy family, and ideal job, and a nice house. For minorities and immigrants, it also includes freedom and equal rights. What is “American Dream”? the so-called American Dream , is a belief that as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life. that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards Prosperity, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance. 亦即人们必须透过自己的工作勤奋、勇气、创意、和决心迈向繁荣，而非依赖于特定的社会阶级和他人的援助 This is usually on behalf of the people in the economic success or entrepreneurial spirit. Many European immigrants hold the American dream of the ideal of the United States. 通常这代表了人们在经济上的成功或是企业家的精神。许多欧洲移民都是抱持著美国梦的理想前往美国的。 Origin The term was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America which was written in 1931. He states: 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. The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence which states that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and t