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The American dream, it's a phrase we've all heard before, and for decades, Americans largely agreed on what it meant.

Well, now new data suggests that among young people, the American dream may not be defined the same way as older Americans do.

NBC10 political commentator

Sue O 'Connell is here.

She walks us through the data.

So what is the American dream in a historical sense, and what do

Americans dream of now, Sue?

Well, Glenn, as long as America has been a country, we've had the American dream, the principle of the American dream,

equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You know those words.

They're in the U .S.

Constitution.

And for decades, most of us believed it meant that if you worked hard, followed the rules, you can get a job,

own a home, raise a family.

But that was then.

This is now.

Consider the results of a new survey completed by Howdy .com.

76 percent of Gen Z and millennials believe the dream is workplace portability, meaning work from home.

And it turns out young people may not even need America to realize their American dream.

77 percent of those surveyed say they believe their lives would be better outside the U .S.

And 51 percent say just leaving the country is the new American dream.

Now, you may think there's some anti -American sentiment in those answers, and perhaps there is, but the study makes it clear.

Young people want a job and they prefer to work for an American company.

They just don't want to have to come into the office every day

and would prefer to live everywhere as opposed to owning a single home in a single place.

Some would define that as freedom.

I mean, Sue, you talk about, you know, working maybe on Zoom, but you're on a beach somewhere and you just don't show the video.

That sounds like the American dream.

But OK, but we seriously, we do say, you know, work from home.

It became popular, we know, because of the pandemic.

Are we to believe the coronavirus has had this big of an effect?

Well, in a way, Priscilla, yes.

The pandemic obviously proved that some members of the American workplace could work from home or from anywhere.

But the definition of the American dream always changes and was already changing.

Consider this.

In 1940, 92 percent of children could expect to earn more than their parents.

Today, only about 50 percent of Americans earn more than their parents did.

Now, that means that's a dramatic decline in economic mobility and housing costs.

Right.

Talk about it all the time traditional home ownership

which was the cornerstone of the american dream is becoming increasingly unattainable

so the elements

that defined what the american dream was for decades are no longer available to most americans

and so i know for some people having a family would be the american dream

so how does the fertility rate factor into all of this

so the fertility fertility rate refers to how many children are being born per woman in the u .s here

and across the country, across the country and the world, obviously, the fertility rate has been declining for several years.

It's now at a historic low of 1 .64 expected births per woman's lifetime.

For comparison, in 1960, when I was born, it was 3 .5 children per woman.

So there are many reasons why, including affordability.

But many people will tell you, Glenn, like you said, a driving force to buy a home or put down roots is starting a family.

So when people are delaying children and having smaller families, the need to stay put decreases, and that means it's easier to be a digital nomad.

All right, really interesting data coming out of that.

Sue O 'Connell, thanks so much.

Very interesting, because you know at the top level, it's shocking, but when Sue peels back the layers, it makes all the sense in the world.

I know.

I mean, the American dream can mean so many different things, but work from home on a beach.

I like that.

I think you're stuck on that one.

That's a good one.

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Las palabras que más se repiten: dream, Sue, percent, fertility, decades. Este vídeo tiene 60 frases y 698 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:00. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 175 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
fertility sustantivo	/fɝˈtɪləti/	fertilidad
define verbo	/dɪˈfaɪn/	determinar, definir
earn verbo	/ɝn/	ganar, granjear
decline verbo	/dɪˈklaɪn/	periclitar, declinar
workplace sustantivo	/ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/	lugar de trabajo, curro
element sustantivo	/ˈɛləmənt/	elemento
shock sustantivo	/ʃɔk/	choque
refer verbo	/ɹɪˈfɜː/	referir, remitir
happiness sustantivo	/ˈhæpinɪs/	felicidad
dramatic adjetivo	/dɹəˈmætɪk/	dramático
delay sustantivo	/dɪˈleɪ̯/	retraso, demora
layer sustantivo	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	capa, tongada
ownership sustantivo	/ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/	propiedad, tituralidad
lifetime sustantivo	/ˈlaɪf.taɪm/	vida
increasingly adverbio		cada vez más

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
put down verbo	menospreciar
turn out verbo	resultar

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	may not be defined · being born · was born
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	has been · has had

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, we've, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: shock /ʃɔk/, ownership /ˈoʊnɚʃɪp/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: fertility /fɝˈtɪləti/, equality /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, mobility /mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/, commentator /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/, coronavirus /kəˈɹoʊnəˌvaɪɹəs/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/z/ — sonora, no /s/: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como fertility, define, earn.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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