Question

What is the American dream? Is today American dream based on materialism? Or is it based on the idea of freedom?

Answer 1

The American Dream is the ideal that he government  should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their own idea of happiness. This is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work, not by chance.

At this moment America is a nation obsessed with shopping and buying unnecessary products. People are no longer satisfied with a nice house and a couple of cars but are almost sick with a constant need for more, more and more no matter what the cost. ( Shanzeh Khurram).

Under this statement above mentioned the American Dream is based on materialism.

Answer 2

The American dream can be anything mostly about freedom. it can be about money or freedom