Second-generation Americans, children of immigrants from the 1960s, are doing better than the foreign born and the general population in one area, education.
Some motifs of the American Dream involve opportunity and success and that is exactly what the second-generation Americans were able to receive and achieve from their parents coming to America. Immigrants come to America not necessarily for themselves but for their children; they come to find a better life for their children.
Being provided with the opportunity to receive a higher education is one of the main reasons immigrants travel to America. Their time wasn't wasted at all because “36 percent [of the second generations Americans] have at least a bachelor’s degree, compared with 29 percent of the foreign born and 31 percent of all adults.” That is a very big deal especially because they have done better than the overall population. With that education they are already in a much better position than most other Americans and are able to have a better paying job than them too.
This second-generation is living proof that even through the struggles as living as children of immigrants, one can still succeed and may even do better than the general population. It’s the struggles that they have to push through that make them want to persevere in order to give their kids a better life than what their parents had given them by migrating to America. The idea of the American Dream is not only for the foreign born or the second-generation it’s for those after them and for those who were already here too.
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