“An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
Is "The American Dream" more alive for ambitious immigrants than for native Americans? If so, is that reflective of a failure of native ambition or of something systemic in America?
Is "The American Dream" more alive for ambitious immigrants than for native Americans? If so, is that reflective of a failure of native ambition or of something systemic in America?
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