The American Dream Part II

Am still mulling on this ... and have received a wide wide range of responses.  When my parents reference the American Dream it comes with the context of their generation.   I wonder if the "American Dream" is now so varied for folks ... and if it rooted in ones economic station?  Now I did do a bit of exploring ... and found out (much to my surprise) that the phrase was not coined until the 1930s ... 

The following is from Wikipedia (don't say anything)

Historian and writer James Adams coined the phrase American Dream in his 1931 book Epic of America:

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.  It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.  It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position. 

"The American Dream, that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of material plenty, though that has doubtlessly counted heavily.  It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the  barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class."

Are you living the American Dream?

Have we become the "upper European class"?