What do people think about the “American Way of Life”?

When asked the question, what they think about the American Way of Life, many people responded differently. When I asked my brother and my sister in law, they were very interested in answering my questions. My Brother thought that the American way of life is to just get rich but on the other hand my sister in law gave me a list of what people typically go through in their American way of life. She said that people go to school then start working then get married then have kids and that’s that. That was her interpretation of the American way of life. When I asked a woman in the street, she had less patience to answer my questions but she thinks the American way of life is just living free, there may be rules but we are all still living freely. I feel the same way. Everyone is free to do whatever pleases them as long as it does not break a law. Sure there are limits to what you can do but you can still do virtually everything you can think of. Free to love, free to live, and free to laugh.
When asked what were the pros and cons of the American way of life, a woman on the street thought a pro was that everyone is able to make their own choices but she thought a con would be the way people decide to make those choices. When I asked my brother and sister in law, they gave similar answers, they both thought a pro would be freedom but the cost of that freedom is a con. Money plays too big of a role in American lives; people are constantly concerned with the money aspect in their life. The truth is, who wouldn’t be? Money is what makes a life easier; everyone in the world wants an easier life. Two patterns that I found were that people gave similar answers as to what the American way of life mostly revolved around, money, and the other pattern is that they don’t seem to be living typical American lives. My sister in law made the American way of life sound easy but all of the people I interviewed did not make life look easy, they were all of working class and thought long and hard about whether or not they lived the American way of life. I don’t think they live the American way of life, I think they are below their own standards, they are all too worried about money and how to get a lot of it. I highly doubt many people live the “American way of life.” People are working too hard to be living the American way of life. The American way of life is played out as the good life; it is played out in movies and on television as easy stress deprived lives. Nobody is happy like that. Nobody lives the life shown through cameras.