The Land of Opportunity

One thing that all of American people have heard at one point or another is that our country has been termed the land of opportunity. While this term was keyed long ago, and has possibly since lost it's meaning, it still holds to be a myth of our culture.

I look back on my grandparent's generation, where this myth definitely held true. That generation worked for every single thing they had and I could not be more proud to associate with people like that. But in a more modern sense, the youth of today, specifically, takes for granted everything that golden generation worked for. Big corporations are shipping out jobs to foreign countries for cheaper labor, and our economy has fallen into a recession. This land does not appear to have the pizazz it used to. Our political systems have put the people into a class system, whether it was intended or not.

Besides the point that our country doesn't appear to have all the said opportunity right now, the key term came about rightfully so. From the late 1800's to the early 1900's America was in the middle of the Industrial Revolution, where mass production of goods began and jobs were plentiful. At this time there was money and opportunity to be had because of the new technology, giving the impression that whatever your societal standing, you can make it big; and it was true.