You chalk it up ALL to luck. A very sad excuse to those that do not learn how to take responsibility for their own lives.
You do make your own luck. Unfortunately, most people end up making their luck bad. Which, admittedly, is normal. :shrugs:
Does this account for everyone? Hardly, and I would deny that MOST of them are middle to upper class according to US standards, which are the only ones that matter in this discussion.
I have met so many foreign entrepenuers who came here with nothing, or very close to it. Yet, they don't come here with the mindset that only the lucky make it. Or the rich. No, they see the opportunity for what it is. They bust their asses driving taxis, until the day they own their own. They bust their asses mowing lawns, unti the day they own their own landscaping business. They accept help *given freely* from others, and turn around and help others when they succeed. They have a very powerful culture, that promotes hard work and self accountability.
I have met so many foreign entrepenuers who came here with nothing, or very close to it. Yet, they don't come here with the mindset that only the lucky make it. Or the rich. No, they see the opportunity for what it is. They bust their asses driving taxis, until the day they own their own. They bust their asses mowing lawns, unti the day they own their own landscaping business. They accept help *given freely* from others, and turn around and help others when they succeed. They have a very powerful culture, that promotes hard work and self accountability.
/me Scratches head...
Indians and those from the Middle East are just as Asian as Mr. Miyagi... Merely pointing out that small fact, and that most of them are middle-to-upper class. And... simply expanding Rah's point by exposing your examples.
You also do realize that immigrants, on the whole, are more psychologically driven than virtually all native Americans? Immigrants know what life is like elsewhere; Natives expect things to be given to them because they're American.
Doesn't change the simple fact that the American Dream is a hollow, noxious, imaginary figment that serves no other purpose than to spur the underclass into unceasing labor.
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Those of us in better positions can relax knowing we're not them; we can hold up examples of those who "make it" to give that tantalizing taste of ambrosia to the drones. Those in worse positions can, well, escape if they truly want. There's alcohol; the cigarrette; the quick meth fix; the busy intersection, the bullet, the knife. Let them.
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