"The European Dream"

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This paper discusses Jeremy Rifkin's book, "The European Dream". The paper presents Rifkin's idea that the American dream is being quickly replaced by the European dream. The paper examines Rifkin's thesis that America has lost its charm, its appeal, and almost everything it once symbolized; the new American generation is overweight, under-educated, and unnecessarily aggressive, with little or no regard for religion.

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"So we are all familiar with the proverbial American Dream. Whether it exists or not, whether it is attainable or not are questions that better to be left alone at this point because there appears to be another proverbial dream that has emerged that demands our attention. According to Jeremy Rifkin, the idea of American dream is not only outdated, it is also being quickly replaced by the European Dream. "While the American Spirit is tiring and languishing in the past," Rifkin writes, "a new European Dream is being born." (4). In his book, The European Dream, Rifkin lays down the thesis that America has lost its charm, its appeal and almost everything it once symbolized, the new American generation is overweight, under-educated and unnecessarily aggressive with little or no regard for religion. So the American Dream that revolved around tapping into opportunities, buying a nice home and amassing every kind of consumer good that one could possibly think of now sounds "far too centered on personal material advancement and too little concerned with the broader human welfare to be relevant in a world of increasing risk, diversity and interdependence." "

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