@Sheril@mastodon.social I think Americans have long suffered from the delusion of the ‘American Dream’, which is essentially that you can come to the US with nothing in your pocket, pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make a financial success of yourself in a way that was impossible under the feudal and class systems of the Old World. The US is supposed to have equality of opportunity….but does it now or did it ever? I find it hard to believe when the Founding Fathers held slaves.