The American Dream

The concept of the American Dream is opportunity - everyone, no matter their circumstances, has a chance to build a better life for themself and their children. When this country was founded, it rejected feudal hierarchies. It rejected "ius sanguinis" - rights that come only from birth. While we have the shame of not rejecting chattel slavery, that unresolved inequity crystallized into a civil war that remediated that error less than 100 years later.

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