What We Hope to Achieve Through this Project
Why We Chose the Topic At first, we thought that East Asian culture— especially South Korean— had went under a significant influence of the American Dream. We expected to do a critical research on this, and found out actual problems that fit our concerns. However, there were other aspects of East Asian culture that could potentially solve the following problems of the American Dream and global capitalism. Seeing the problems of our society faces by practicing global capitalism allowed us to understand the negative aspects of the American Dream. Plus, the increasing demand on past traditional practice of philosophy or culture in East Asian countries along with the growing influence of East Asian trends on a global scale could be interpreted as the fade and shift of the American Dream. Why Understanding the Changing Face of the American Dream Matters to Us We are living in a global society where one force/trend does not stay within a nation. Thus, the American Dre...