Comments on: Can the American Dream Be Continued? http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/ Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Chunyan Li http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-7698 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:30:56 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-7698 Don,

Thorough analysis from a unique angle. As I look at my children (second generation American) toil in their studies, I ask constantly this question, will they achieve the American Dream, especially a subtle assumption that the younger generation will be better than the older generation?

]]> By: Tim Zebo http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-125 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:23:56 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-125 A link to a new book that’s very relevant to your post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/only-empathy-can-save-us_b_447685.html
“The Emphatic Civilization is a fascinating book that boldly challenges the conventional view of human nature embedded in our educational systems, business practices, and political culture — a view that sees human nature as detached, rational, and objective, and sees individuals as autonomous agents in pursuit primarily of material self-interest. And it seeks to replace that view with a counter-narrative that allows humanity to see itself as an extended family living in a shared and interconnected world.”

]]> By: Michael Liew http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-124 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:59:35 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-124 Dear Don,

A good article.I enjoyed reading it.

The centre of gravity of economic growth is shifting gradually to China and India.

]]> By: Joan Shiau http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-123 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:37:00 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-123 Dear Don,
Your opinion is so great.
I agree that.

]]> By: Tim Zebo http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-122 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:36:54 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-122 Adam Smith would likely agree. See:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/us/30iht-currents.html?pagewanted=1&ref=weekinreview
“If you have either no indignation at the injuries I have suffered, or none that bears any proportion to the resentment which transports me, we can no longer converse upon these subjects,” he wrote. “We become intolerable to one another. I can neither support your company, nor you mine. You are confounded at my violence and passion, and I am enraged at your cold insensibility and want of feeling.”
—Adam Smith, “Moral Sentiments”

]]> By: Lin Fong-O'Neill http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-120 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:29:45 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-120 Great article. Thanks. Lin

]]> By: Martin Tu http://www.dontow.com/2010/01/can-the-american-dream-be-continued/#comment-119 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:58:07 +0000 http://www.dontow.com/?p=704#comment-119 Hi Don-

This is a great article!
You have observed the history, analyzed the contemporary events, and provided your insights at individual / social / national level.
It is pretty educational for me.

Martin

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