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American Dream

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There has never been a country quite like the United States of America. Although we are still a very young country, compared to the rest of the world we are very unique. The biggest reason for this is that this country was founded by immigrants, and almost everyone living in this country can trace their roots back to a foreign country. The tallest hurdle that immigrants of this era have to overcome is the question of whether or not they should adapt to the "American" way of life or if they should stick to their out heritage.

Say a new person chooses to move to America, one without any connections here, that person will most likely move to an area that has many people with the same ethnicity. If the immigrant is from china they would, most likely, first move to a large city that has a China town in it. That way at first they don't have to change out if their behavior, language or way of life. They wouldn't want to move somewhere where there are a lot of people of a different ethnicity like the Chinese immigrant moving to the city of El Paso.

When that immigrant decides that they would like to make money, than they are making the China Town they are in, they would have to move out of their comfort zone. When they move away, they will most likely have to drop many of their ways of life, in order

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