In The Land Of Opportunity, Why Hinder Our Own Success?
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"[Germany] was profoundly not a land of opportunity," he explained.
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AMERICA used to be the land of opportunity and optimism.
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America has always prided itself on being a land of opportunity.
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Yet the firm sees the region as a land of opportunity.
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MATH America is often referred to as the land of opportunity.
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They were coming to the United States, the land of opportunity.
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" The singer went on to ask, "We&aposre the land of opportunity.
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America has its setbacks, but it is still a land of opportunity.
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Let's not forget, we live in fucking America, the land of opportunity.
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America is the land of opportunity, where anyone can pursue their dreams.
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"We think the Bronx is the new land of opportunity," he said.
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But they are so thrilled to be in the land of opportunity.
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"Hong Kong was a land of opportunity," Lai says of that era.
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I still believe in the idea this is the land of opportunity.
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America has been perceived as a land of opportunity for a long time.
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Arkansas calls itself the Land of Opportunity, but some might beg to differ.
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It's really inspiring -- if you work hard, it is a land of opportunity.
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The land of opportunity is just another way of saying the land of winners.
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New Delhi (CNN)For India's aspirational millennials, Cyber City is the land of opportunity.
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"I think this is like a land of opportunity," the 18-year-old said.
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When I came here, it was the land of opportunity, and it still is.
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What does the data have to say about America as the land of opportunity?
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Current nondiscrimination proposals embody our nation's core identity -- the land of opportunity and equal treatment.
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Some people speak of Two Americas and others emphasize The Land of Opportunity, for example.
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Over the past decade, the African continent has become a land of opportunity for many.
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"I noticed it was the land of opportunity, but not for everyone," Hamilton told me.
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It's hard to feel hopeful in what is supposed to be a land of opportunity.
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I mean, it is the land of opportunity and people are trying to make it.
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Meanwhile, as Mr Autor said, there is no land of opportunity for workers without a college education.
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He is based in NY. Virtual reality: the wild west; the new frontier; the land of opportunity.
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The United States has long been the land of opportunity, but also one of persistent income inequality.
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We need to recommit ourselves to the American dream and being the land of opportunity for all.
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I left the "land of opportunity" for graduate school at Harvard and then earned three law degrees.
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But my parents never gave up their hope or belief that America was the land of opportunity.
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I can't let a racist administration uproot me from this land of opportunity, this home that I chose.
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Brightly lit, fast-paced, populous New York City has often been seen as the land of opportunity, career-wise.
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"This is a land of opportunity," said Mr. Atwal, who came to the United States from India in 1981.
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Exactly the same as a beacon of light, we are a company of opportunity and a land of opportunity.
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They should protect the values that give our people faith in America as a land of opportunity for all.
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America is the land of opportunity and will always be an attractive destination for those seeking a better life.
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"This is a land of opportunity and people want to come here and I can understand," she told KTRK.
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But we found that America is no longer as much of a land of opportunity as it once was.
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They had amassed enough savings in the land of opportunity to resume their lives back where they had started.
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For Kaiser, America was the land of opportunity, but he is acutely aware that others are not so privileged.
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"Hateful" views may include opposing affirmative action, supporting a Republican or suggesting that America is a land of opportunity.
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When I first came here, I was very into the idea of America as the land of opportunity for all.
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To Remigao, New York City represents the "land of opportunity," and says she personally feels targeted by Trump's campaign platform.
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For all of the proclamations of America as a land of opportunity, it's exceedingly hard to move up the ladder.
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It's a land of opportunity for all of us immigrants and this land provided me with opportunities, with limitless friends.
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The role of government should be to safeguard our rights and ensure the United States remains the land of opportunity.
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Biden's America is a land of opportunity, but only because people work together to help each other through tough times.
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He returned home to a small village in rural Oaxaca, with his savings and tales of the land of opportunity.
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The answer is quite simple: To them, East Pakistan was not a land of exile, but a land of opportunity.
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The myth of the land of opportunity where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps is just that -- a myth.
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Kennan's campaign coincided with a rising perception of Russia as a land of opportunity for Protestant missionaries and American manufacturers.
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"I want this state to be known for what it is, the land of opportunity," Mr. Ducey said in an interview.
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And my parents chose to come to the United States over every other country because it's considered the land of opportunity.
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This huge and disturbing gap is not what you would expect in a nation that calls itself the Land of Opportunity.
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The idea that Silicon Valley is a land of opportunity, Pein points out, is based on only five percent of reality.
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For this British writer living in New York in the nineteen-nineties, all that land-of-opportunity stuff was actually true.
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This must change if America is truly going to be the Land of Opportunity for those who served in the military.
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He would build a giant wall to keep Mexicans out of the Land of Opportunity — and make Mexico pay for it.
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These are American stories of hard-work, great hope, and belief in the promise of America as a land of opportunity.
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With my siblings and me arriving at our father's house and starting a new life together in this great land of opportunity.
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Americans like to think of their country as the land of opportunity, where merit, not discrimination, will define what they might achieve.
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I came to this country believing it was the land of opportunity where chances are given to everyone to better their lives.
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This, in a country that touts itself as the "land of opportunity," yet has one of the lowest rates of socioeconomic mobility.
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He would escape from Ukraine, he figured, and reboot himself as a reformed hacker and computer security expert in the Land of Opportunity.
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The USA is the undoubted land of opportunity for MMA combatants and most of the money in the sport resides in the country.
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Much of his economic messaging sounded like repackaged Republican talking points, focusing largely on the idea of America being the land of opportunity.
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The United States has always been the land of opportunity, but an outdated immigration system runs the risk of us losing our footing.
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For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity.
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It won't ever be like it was or how it's been advertised, but that's OK. This is the new-ish land of opportunity.
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Jackson Heights and, by extension, New York City is a microcosm for the country: a land of opportunity and despair, privilege and privation.
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Forces at work that tell us that this is the land of opportunity and you can be whatever you want, only ... you can't.
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To the diplomats and NGO workers who flooded into Pristina after the war, Europe's youngest country appeared to be a land of opportunity.
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"This is the land of opportunity; it is the greatest nation in the world, no matter what anyone says out there," Mr. Schwarzenegger said.
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"He understood America as being a land of opportunity, understood the value of capitalism, the value of hard work, personal responsibility," Leo told me.
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I just didn't allow myself to be swept away by this scintillating, shiny land of opportunity, which was the music world at the time.
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Characters spend years separated from parents or children in order to ensure a better life for their loved ones in the land of opportunity.
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His family fled communist Yugoslavia when he was a child in hopes of landing in America, the land of opportunity, only to be turned away.
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We create the appearance of a land of opportunity, where underdogs who hope and dream can overcome all challenges and fight their way to success.
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Back in Russia in the late eighties, struggling to pay the rent despite working two jobs, I imagined this country as a land of opportunity.
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That's the land of opportunity I want for everyone: where whether we make music by guitar or by computer, we won't settle for bloodless pap.
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They did the bravest thing: leaving their home to come for a better life for themselves and their family in America, the land of opportunity.
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He presented us with the promise of America, a land of opportunity for all and a country governed by the people, which greatly excited him.
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It prides itself on the belief that in this land of opportunity any woman, man and child should be able to reach their full potential.
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"People talk about the US being the land of opportunity and freedom and justice, and that's true but only to a certain extent," he said.
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Our country has been built by the hard work of those who've come here for liberty and to find hope in a land of opportunity.
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It was during these years that the University of California included the phrase "America is the land of opportunity" on a list of discouraged microaggressions.
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If you think of liberty's torch as a beacon of light from the land of opportunity, that's how we viewed that light coming through the door.
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They do not like being accused of racism if they object to affirmative action or of "microaggressions" if they say "America is a land of opportunity".
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But as the years passed, I began to relax, thinking that maybe, just maybe, in the land of opportunity, my father might stick around after all.
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Bored, unfulfilled and dependent on her husband for every dime, she struggled with the notion that her professional life was doomed in the land of opportunity.
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Let's not court capital flight, brain drain, tens of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars of economic activity, fleeing America for a better Land of Opportunity.
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Our entire conception of ourselves as a land of opportunity is diminished by the fact that our child poverty rates are as high as they are.
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The letter reads: Since the country's birth, America has been the land of opportunity – welcoming newcomers and giving them the chance to build families, careers, and businesses.
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Canadians 'saved my life' Ahmed and Hossain say they were drawn to America as the land of opportunity, home of refugees, a place that cherishes human rights.
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At the same time, we have countries that are tremendously successful, with an extraordinary growth rate that makes people say that Africa is a land of opportunity.
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But America has unparalleled advantages that still make our nation the land of opportunity no matter your zip code, your race, your gender or your sexual orientation.
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America's immigration system needs a major overhaul to keep our nation open as a land of opportunity while serving our national economic interest in the 21st century.
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He came to the "land of opportunity" in 1969, hoping to support his family and give them a life which was unavailable in 20th century Grecian poverty.
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Describing the rapidly warming region as a land of "opportunity and abundance," Mr. Pompeo cited its untapped reserves of oil, gas, uranium, gold, fish, and rare earth minerals.
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"The world's view of the United States as a land of opportunity is based, in no small measure, on the possibilities that our colleges and universities create," he writes.
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That contradicts a lot of the myths we learned in school about this being the land of opportunity, a land where access to education should be a great leveler.
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Perhaps she was just looking to showcase her skills in the land of opportunity or maybe her primary incentive was to leave the socially striated European continent behind her.
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Suitcases were strewn around the stage, and then stacked to represent the city's skyline, conjuring the land of opportunity that drew successive generations of immigrants and refugees from mainland China.
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I wanted to come to the US because I always saw the United States as a land of opportunity and as a nation of immigrants, which actually valued and appreciated immigration.
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These reforms should affirm the United States as the land of opportunity where people of any background can work hard, develop new ideas, and benefit from the fruits of their labor.
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For years, a favorite theme of Mr. Coors was that America was a land of opportunity for immigrants, whether legal or illegal, including what he called "wetbacks" crossing the Rio Grande.
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I was at the Atlanta camp to ask the high school players if these camps really were the land of opportunity, as Harbaugh and Washington State's Mike Leach, among others, insist.
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Regardless of skin color, the United States looks ever less like a land of opportunity, and more like a place where advantages secured early in life tend to perpetuate themselves for decades.
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That means that it's not a matter of getting this or that particular technology through the Valley of Death, but smuggling a whole family of stuff across to the land of opportunity.
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"Pittsburgh is the land of opportunity for chefs," said Justin Severino, another Lawrenceville pioneer whose Cure, which he opened on a dingy stretch of Butler Street in 68093, has won national accolades.
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The result, Mr Reeves argues, is a chasm between the upper middle class and the bottom 80% of households, which makes a mockery of America's vision of itself as a land of opportunity.
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Let's elevate the dialogue and find ways to keep this a land of opportunity where hard work, talent and luck are rewarded and everyone gets a fair shot at realizing the American Dream.
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The American story is both devastating and hopeful over the arc of over 400 years, and an honest look reveals an obvious truth: that "America," land of opportunity for everyone, has never existed.
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We should also defend America as a land of opportunity to anyone who wants to live here, work hard, and contribute to our culture and our economy — regardless of religion, race, or ethnicity.
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AD: I think there was always this idea that China was like the Mecca, you know the land of opportunity for non-Chinese companies to go in, like American companies to go in.
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Let's elevate the dialogue and find ways to keep this a land of opportunity where hard work, talent and luck are rewarded and everyone gets a fair shot at realizing the American dream. Okay.
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For students of disinformation — including the Russians who to date have not even had to leverage such sophisticated web technology to mislead American voters — this new information ecosystem presents a vast land of opportunity.
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America's unifying creed was that we were a land of opportunity, where our kids would be better off than we were, but for an unnecessarily large number of people that no longer feels true.
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This whole experience has reshaped how Asgari thinks about the US. "America always seemed like a land of opportunity, that if you're willing to be a part of this community, it reciprocate," she said.
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"It's become like America, a land of opportunity — for kidnappers," said Mohanned el Mahjoub, a chatty 30-year-old militia commander, as we sped through Tripoli one night in his hulking four-wheel-drive Jeep.
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Colombians fleeing civil war, Peruvians fleeing the political and economic instability under Alberto Fujimori and Chileans fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship sought refuge in the oil-rich country, which was seen as a land of opportunity.
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That the unfairness of it all weighs on his heart, just like it does mine, and that when he is elected, he will do whatever it takes to make America the land of opportunity again.
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"He had the same dreams like everyone else, to make it BIG in the land of opportunity," his cousin Raghu Chowdavaram said in a solicitation on GoFundMe for funds to transport Koppu's body back to India.
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"I think the interesting thing for Melo is that there is this land of opportunity out there that he has not quite accessed yet, and that's what we're here to do alongside of him," Fisher said.
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This is the essence of the American Dream -- in the land of opportunity, if you have a good idea, create a solid plan, and work hard, you should be able to reinvent yourself and get ahead.
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It felt like proof this was indeed the land of opportunity—that the American dream was real—and for the first time, I started to feel closer to my new home than my motherland of Taiwan.
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"He had the same dreams like everyone else, to make it BIG in the land of opportunity," his cousin Raghu Chowdavaram said on a GoFundMe page created to raise money to transport Koppu's body back to India.
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Despite long living in the country's capital, she has a complicated relationship with the U.S. "When I first came here, I was very into the idea of America as the land of opportunity for all," she recalled.
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So here (via Recode's Kara Swisher): Dear President Trump,Since the country's birth, America has been the land of opportunity – welcoming newcomers and giving them the chance to build families, careers, and businesses in the United States.
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Here's a draft of the letter: Dear President Trump, Since the country's birth, America has been the land of opportunity — welcoming newcomers and giving them the chance to build families, careers and businesses in the United States.
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Update: Here's a draft of the letter: Dear President Trump, Since the country's birth, America has been the land of opportunity — welcoming newcomers and giving them the chance to build families, careers and businesses in the United States.
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Once land of opportunity It is a reversal of fortunes for Venezuela, which was once the richest country in Latin America and a destination of choice for those fleeing turmoil in the region during the 1970s and 80s.
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"He had the same dreams like everyone else, to make it BIG in the land of opportunity," his cousin Raghu Chowdavaram said in a solicitation on GoFundMe for funds to transport Koppu's body back to India, the paper reported.
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My family, farmers from Zacatecas, Mexico, just couldn't make a living anymore selling their crops because cheaper American beans and corn flooded the Mexican market under NAFTA, so my parents and I went north to the land of opportunity.
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Like the 12-hour shifts driving a cab six night a week and the long years crammed into a too small apartment with too many people, their fears are just another cost of building a life in the land of opportunity.
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New leadership is coming to Washington, and voters have sent Republicans to lead our nation with an obligation to take a principled stand to protect senior citizens, who have worked tirelessly to help make the United States a land of opportunity.
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His daughter and granddaughter confronted a question that occupies center stage in our times: When people embrace, trust, and act on the proposition that the United States is a land of opportunity, how are they to make sense of failure?
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Scarville conveys a wide range of subject positions that the immigrant can take up in a new land of opportunity, where identity, though still tethered to the home culture by ethnicity, sex, language, and other facts, is nevertheless more malleable.
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So he makes his own, a happy, kinky, multicolored life in a golden land of opportunity and adventure—at home, in Los Angeles, California, Earth, where it always has been, and always will be, almost exactly but not quite November 2019.
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Let us also celebrate those whose strength and fortitude is our nation's armor, and remember that our land of opportunity is protected by people who diminish their own opportunity, their own comfort, their own safety and sometimes sacrifice their own lives for us.
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Well he lost all of his friends in a helicopter crash caused by a young boy who befriended Ryan with his innocence, ignited the white savior in him, and got the last spot on a flight heading back to the land of opportunity.
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Proving the old adage that America is the land of opportunity where anything can happen, Dennis Hof, a Trump-loving brothel owner, won his race for Nevada state legislature on Tuesday night — despite the fact that he's been dead for three weeks.
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With its references to off-world colonies -- where humans get "a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure" -- "Blade Runner" was ahead of its time in introducing the idea that there are consequences to humankind's actions on Earth.
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Once land of opportunity According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) more than half a million Venezuelans have crossed into Ecuador via Colombia since the start of the year, with some 30,000 entering in the first week of August alone.
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As the song says, "Only in America, land of opportunity…" It's true that all over Europe, ethno-nationalist splinter parties have taken increasingly larger percentages of the vote in recent elections, a development correlated with an increasing influx of noncitizens to these nations.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told diplomats at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland on Monday that the rapidly warming Arctic region presents a land of "opportunity and abundance," citing untapped resources like oil, gas, uranium and gold and rare earth minerals.
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At the meeting of the eight-nation Arctic Council this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismayed fellow diplomats by describing the rapidly warming region as a land of "opportunity and abundance" because of its untapped reserves of oil, gas, uranium, gold, fish and rare-earth minerals.
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"As president, my husband will continue to fight each and every day to ensure our security, defend our livelihoods, and rebuild the foundations of fortune that have made the United States the land of opportunity," Melania said during her speech, probably smelling his breath as he inched even closer.
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And protest can easily stray into preciousness: the University of California, for example, suggests that it is a racist "micro-aggression" to say that "America is a land of opportunity", because it could be taken to imply that those who do not succeed have only themselves to blame.
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Atlanta (CNN)Americans born into poverty are more likely than ever before to stay that way, according to a United Nations report on poverty and inequality in the US. "The United States, one of the world's richest nations and the "land of opportunity," is fast becoming a champion of inequality," the report concluded.
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The idea is that we do not see these people represented very often — people who, in the real world, suffer all manner of prejudice and setbacks because they have dared to live a life in a country that is not made for them, even as it postures as the land of opportunity.
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I thought we were the land of opportunity and a welcoming nation... It made me feel like all of the sacrifices that my grandfather went through, after spendings years as a political prisoner in Cuba, to come to this country and give his children a better life was undone in that stupid hate filled tweet.
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The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus," which contains the iconic lines "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" — repeated by millions of immigrants as a welcome to the land of opportunity — was written by Emma Lazarus, a Jewish writer, political activist, and translator.
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And even though they're loud and explode-y, they're also inclusive, diverse, tough-as-hell, and champion a sort of "ideal patriotism" where they fight for an America that's truly a land of opportunity and unafraid of otherness (unless "the other" rides toward the coast in a giant floating volcano, which absolutely happens in this issue).
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Although most Americans still look toward Harry Potter and Downton Abbey as the cultural touchstones of the United Kingdom, rap music has allowed the rest of the world to understand there's more to the Great Land of Opportunity than parking lots, questionable health-care policy and fat old men yeehaw-ing their way to a monster truck derby or a discount clothing superstore.
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It's always raining in Blade Runner (partially to mask imperfections in the film set, according to Ridley Scott) and things have gotten so bad that everybody's trying to leave, for "the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure" in off-world colonies that are never seen in the film—and which may not even be so great.
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He chronicled the rise of California as a land of opportunity in "Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s" (19903) and a treacherous paradise in the fraught years of the 1930s, which he described in two Janus-like volumes: the somber "Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California" (1996) and the much sunnier "The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s" (210).
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These three documentaries expose through a remarkable variety of lenses—literal, in the archival footage spanning place and age; legal, in the numerous policies either entrenching or challenging racist norms; and personal, whether the ire of an expat intellectual or the woe of an inmate wrongly accused—how the myth of America as the land of opportunity has been built on the theft of both land and opportunity from black human beings and has consistently relied on white lies and black labor to keep the dream afloat.
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As she lay in the dark field, a bruise forming on her cheek where Gary had struck her, she was stubbornly consoled by faith in the future, by her belief that America was the land of opportunity, by the certainty that even Gary's drunkenness couldn't stop the Number 6 school bus from picking up her kids each morning and taking them to get an education at Yamhill Carlton High School, learning algebra, biology, the use of prepositions and other knowledge that no one else in her family had been exposed to.
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