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5 Immigrants Reply the Query: What Is the American Dream?

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What’s your favourite factor about the US of America? 

I like that it is a free nation and a land of alternative. 

What’s your least favourite factor in regards to the US? 

Gun! Gun! Gun violence is so much. 

What would you prefer to see occur within the US? 

A remaining finish to racism on this nation.

Gabriela Trujillo 

From Marianao, Cuba, and now lives in Hialeah, Florida.

Trujillo at 28. Photographer: Alexander Saladrigas. Vogue Stylist: Alexander-Julian

Alexander Saladrigas 

What does the American Dream imply to you? 

My household got here as political refugees with nothing to our title, all dwelling in a one-bedroom residence, not realizing a phrase of English. Inside a number of years my mother had her personal magnificence salon. That is the American Dream. 

What did the American Dream imply to your dad and mom? 

Lastly having peace of thoughts. [With] rationed meals traces [in Cuba]…my dad must stroll over 30 miles a day to search out me root greens, fish, goat’s milk — something to maintain [me,] his child daughter. The American Dream meant by no means having to surprise how we’d eat once more.