The reality I felt during my ten years in America contradicted the American dream.

US President-elect Trump once said in his victory speech that he will rebuild the United States and rekindle the American dream after he takes office. Is it relevant that the Democratic Party has been in power for eight years? American dream? Fading topics are mentioned from time to time, such as inequality between the rich and the poor, inequality of opportunities, racial discrimination and strategic contraction. These problems have troubled the American people, and many people have gradually lost confidence in the government. Overseas immigrants feel more strongly about the huge contrast between dreams and reality. An American student named Meng sent me an article he wrote about the reality that he felt contradicting the American dream during his ten years in the United States. International Online Special: More than 300 years ago, a group of European Puritans came to the New World of North America to escape persecution. Later, through their own efforts and struggles, these idealists established the United States of America, the most powerful economic and political entity in the world today. The spirit of diligence, pragmatism, yearning for equality, perseverance and ambition possessed by the early American pioneers is the core connotation of the American dream that people are familiar with today. Ten years ago, I set foot on the land of the United States of America with a vision of the American dream. Today, ten years later, the American dream, like a yellow flower of tomorrow, is dying.

Racial discrimination is not just discrimination against blacks by whites.

It is a beautiful vision of mankind to firmly believe that all men are created equal. When I arrived in America, I deeply realized that there was a man named? Racial discrimination? Things are everywhere. There is a little thing in class that I still remember vividly.

About five years ago, I went back to school and met a black classmate named Bob in the writing class at school. Bob is a member of the school track and field team and the American football team. One day, the teacher asked everyone to practice in groups, because I was late that day, and only he and I were left in the class to form a team. Looking at each other, Bob joined other groups and left me alone. After the whole class, we sat at the same table again, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing.

After class, I tried to make friends with him many times, but he ignored me When I pulled out of the parking lot and saw him smoking with some friends, Bob shouted at me with an F? XX you Asians? And gave me the middle finger. I was shocked at that time, but I didn't know that this was the so-called racial discrimination.

Black Americans themselves discriminate against other ethnic groups (screenshot)

The course is very busy, and the mid-term exam is coming in a blink of an eye. For us diligent China students, the mid-term exam is not difficult. I got an a. On the day he got his grades, Bob was discussing them with several classmates. The man in the back seat borrowed my test paper for comparison, and Bob peeked. When the man in the back seat returned my newspaper, Bob offered to lend it to me, but I refused.

At this time, Bob suddenly faded and asked me in a condescending tone, can I borrow my paper? I glared at him and turned him down again.

Bob went on to say indignantly, you Asians have a bad attitude! ? So I asked him who scolded me in the parking lot.

After school, Bob came to me and kept apologizing to me, explaining that he just couldn't stand Asians driving luxury cars at school. I said, I bought this car on my own. Is there something wrong? He said that his family earned money very hard, a family of seven, and so on.

I haven't seen Bob since that semester, but I remember. When I mention the British, I think of their cheap mouths; When I mention Americans, I think of racial discrimination in their bones.

Obama became the first African-American president of the United States (screenshot)

Although Obama is an African-American president, I don't think racial discrimination in the United States disappeared during his term of office, but it has become more serious. Take Bob as an example. Blacks always discriminate against Asians and think that Asians are inferior. Obama's coming to power made them feel that their social status had been improved. I believe that an equal society does not give special care and treatment to a certain group, but treats everyone equally with the attitude of treating adults.

Middle-aged people support their families by receiving subsistence allowances.

Realizing a middle-class life with a car and a house through personal struggle can be said to be the first dream of every China person after he first came to the United States, and it is also one of the original connotations of the American dream. However, now more native Americans forget the motto of their ancestors' efforts to get rich.

Before that, I had a neighbor named Ben, who was white. We have been neighbors for three years. In my impression, Ben never appeared before noon 12, ordered takeout to buy fast food all year round, and watched TV late almost every day. Go to the movies, watch American football or play video games on weekends. Ben looks in his early thirties. He and his wife have two daughters and a son.

Once my TV broke down, so I went to buy a new one. Ben asked me how much I spent, and I said it was more than 1000 dollars after paying the tax. He said, you are really rich. Later, I learned that Ben didn't work all the year round and received the minimum living allowance every year. For him, the rent is very cheap, and medical insurance is also the government's low-income insurance. There is nothing wrong with getting meals on time every month and being happy with your wife and children every day.

More and more young Americans live on subsistence allowances (screenshot)

He once complained to me that his former boss treated him badly because he never went to work on time and often left early. He even thinks it's too hard to work five days a week, and it's not bad to eat subsistence allowances. I asked him about his plans for the future, and he said, nothing, I hope to buy a single-family house, but the house price is too expensive and the credit is not very good. Ben gave me the feeling that there is wine today, and you are drunk today. You only care about the present.

Later, I moved out of the apartment and bought a dream single-family house with front and back yards with a loan. Seven years after I moved out of that apartment, I happened to pass by and found that Ben and his family still lived there.

As we all know, the welfare expenditure in the United States is getting bigger and bigger, and it has basically reached the situation that one person depends on the tax of two people, which leads to more young people and middle-aged people living on welfare. In June this year, data released by the US Department of Labor showed that 94.3 million Americans lost their ability to work. Several large professional survey companies pointed out that most of these people just lost confidence in finding jobs, so they only rely on social assistance to live. The Democratic Party won the votes of the bottom people through generous relief, but it brought a heavy financial burden to the United States from the federal to the states.

Childbirth of Minors: Lack of Temperance and Self-discipline

Another thing that impressed me deeply, I think this is the lack of optimism of Americans. My former colleague, Julio, is an immigrant from Mexico. He works with me in the medical record room and the settlement room. He is a happy and open-minded optimist.

Julio has a daughter named Linda, who is only 14 years old, but she gave birth to a child. I once asked him politely that Linda was so young and you were so busy with your work. Is it okay for Linda to have a baby so early? He said, it doesn't matter. True love is when children are with boyfriends. So I asked him again, Linda herself hasn't grown up yet. Is she capable of raising this little life? He said, I don't know, you try. Not everyone is born with parents. You know, it's part of growing up.

Later, I met Linda's boyfriend and father at a newborn party held by my colleagues (similar to China's full moon wine). He is also a naive teenager, and the freckles on his face have not faded. The boy and Linda were childhood friends when they were at school in Mexico. After Julio brought his family to America, they went back to visit from time to time, so the two children were together.

Mexican immigrants generally like to have more children (screenshot)

The boy was also courageous, so he told his family that he would come to the United States to find his beloved girl and cross the border all the way without a passport. First of all, I live in a cousin's house. Later, I found out that Julio's family was in Los Angeles, so I relied on his cousin to come to menstruation's house in Los Angeles and learn to repair cars while working. Just because I have no identity, I have to avoid the police from time to time.

Later, he resigned and left the company, but he also knew something about Julio intermittently. Because he took a lot of leave, the company didn't run well and was later laid off by the company. Linda later gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the whole family lived on subsistence allowances.

Julio showed me American optimism, but this optimism erased the necessary self-discipline in the name of freedom. It is quite common for Mexican minors like Linda to give birth in California. I still remember when I was at school, a classmate was in Mexico. There are 15 children in his family, and he ranks thirteenth. His mother is 52 years old and pregnant with her sixteenth child.

/kloc-should the government subsidize the birth of a child at the age of 0/4? Many young people are afraid of hardship and mistakes, so they can live on government relief without working? Who will pay for the huge social welfare expenditure and the foreign debt of more than ten trillion dollars? Although illegal immigrants have brought the labor force that the United States lacks, they have also caused a series of social problems, which cannot be solved simply by giving and accommodating. As Trump said, what the United States needs now is law and order.

Trump claimed to restore law and order in the United States during the campaign (screenshot)

The so-called elite has been preaching the unparalleled strength and talented people in the United States for ten years, and the grassroots who hate lying are no longer willing to believe this statement, but demand to face up to the problem and make changes. Although Obama came to power under the slogan of change, eight years later, many problems still exist and people's lives are getting worse and worse. Therefore, I think the United States needs more changes and a more pragmatic attitude to solve problems, and should pay more attention to people's livelihood.

Ten years in the United States, from George W. Bush to Obama to Trump, I have experienced a lot. From idealism at the beginning to realism now, many people think it is wonderful, but now it seems to be a castle in the air. The core spirit of the once-yearned American dream is dissipating, replaced by something for nothing, hedonism and social division. America is not what it used to be.