In the middle of a lush, green ten-acre field sits a quaint Victorian-style home attached with three garage doors and an emerald Escalade with eighteen-inch chrome wheels. This is the American dream of the twenty-first century. It is also, as James Truslow Adams, a famous historian, believes, “a land where life should be better, richer, and fuller for every man, with opportunity…regardless of fortuitous circumstances of birth or position” (374). Adams believes that every American is obligated to have a stress-free and equally opportunistic lifestyle. However, the American dream is an illusion. The world perceives that foreigners seek to reach America in search of this aspiration, but in reality they are forced by their unspeakable situations at home. Furthermore, the utopian image of equal opportunity and financial prosperity when first setting foot on American soil is an overused and exploited term. Through American history involving Asian and European immigrants, it is proven that the American dream never existed and still does not exist. The American perception of immigrants eager to land in America is a complete mistake. Looking from the outside, people see that migrants imagine this land as a place where goals are achieved. However, many immigrants are “aware that [there are] unfavorable social and/or governmental forces [that] reduce the set of available opportunities” (Djajić 833). They understand that you need to speak the English language to communicate and be successful. Having overcome the years of learning, many foreigners see this factor as a deterrent to travel to America. Furthermore, immigrants have no choice but to settle in America to escape their arduous life. Like... middle of the paper... ip and John Milbank. No equality in opportunities. 27 January 2010. Guardian News and Media Limited. May 4, 2010, .Burns, Kate and Lorie A. Johnson. “Is the American Dream a Myth?” The American dream does not exist. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2006.Djajic, Slobodan. “Immigrant Assimilation: Implications for Second Generation Human Capital Accumulation.” Journal of Population Economics. November 2003: 832-833. JSTOR. JSTOR. Parsippany Hills High School Library, Parsippany, NJ, May 6, 2010, .Malanga, Steven. How unskilled immigrants hurt our economy. May 13, 2006. The Manhattan Institute. May 10, 2010, .Miller, Arthur. Death of a salesman. New York: Penguin, 1998.