The California Golden Dream

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This paper explains that, for many years, people considered California to be the ideal home because there were many opportunities for them to improve their living; therefore, since the Gold Rush era, many immigrants have come to California with the dream of making a fortune but they have had a difficult time achieving the California Golden Dream. The author discusses problems of competition for jobs, a high cost of living and assimilation into American culture in the Gold Rush era and today. The paper concludes that, today, people may pay more attention to their freedoms than they did in the Gold Rush era, but the basic problems still remain the same; nonetheless, California is still an ideal home for the immigrants.

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"In the Gold Rush era, because people came from different countries, they arranged to live together in the camp based on their ethnicity. That prevented cross-culture communications, which may have helped them get along with each other. On the other hand, in today's California, immigrants still do not have too many chances to interact with the outside world, because they still tend to get along with people of the same culture. Chinatown, Japan town, and Russia town...such kinds of places get favors from the immigrants. Once they arrive, most of them prefer to live in those places and build a life inside the towns. My parents are members of such a group of people. They live in China own and work in Chinatown. And also they are afraid to talk with people from other cultures, especially the English speakers. Therefore, they lost the connection with mainstream society and may have missed chances to make their dreams come true."

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