In honor of The Sun’s fiftieth year in print, we’re revisiting topics that have appeared in past issues and reprinting some of the original responses. “The American Dream” ran in our January 1993 issue.
— Ed.
Whenever I asked my parents what I should do with my life, they shrugged and said, “Do what makes you happy.” I would roll my eyes because there was no way that three generations of my family had sacrificed — first by fleeing China during the Cultural Revolution, then by leaving Taiwan and their friends and family to work at a fast-food restaurant in America — just so I could do whatever I wanted.
