The American dream was also a concept for non-Americans. I mean, it's not like a formal, natural phenomenon we can just observe, so everyone has its own interpr

The American dream was also a concept for non-Americans. I mean, it's not like a formal, natural phenomenon we can just observe, so everyone has its own interpretation. So here is mine, from a French who chose to emigrate in China instead of the US: the idea was that you'd come from your bum-shit country into that vast new land of opportunities where everything was to build, you build it and are rewarded in a fair meritocratic system in ways your rotting homeland could never have provided. But now, you have to get your Twitter account scanned to be allowed entry under a temporary visa (or hey, try a green card lottery), risk upsetting an untreated schizophrenic while crossing the streets, to go to a gun-heavy anti-police protest anarchists use as an excuse to empty their Molotov stock while the police, too happy to finally have a purpose for their military weapon stocks, shoot at random. And if you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, you can be sent to a private jail. All the while, any accident you would have would not have been covered by any sort of socialized insurance but you'd be under one of the most punitive international tax system. And if you're unlucky, you can always take a payday loan, and join the merry mass of indebted grassroot people who have negative equity for no reason a rational mind could understand. The American nightmare, it seems to me :s