Zócalo Public SquareA Humbler California Dream – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 A Humbler California Dream https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/01/12/a-humbler-california-dream/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/01/12/a-humbler-california-dream/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:01:55 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=57656 California has long been seen as a beautiful land of opportunity—a place where the sun is always shining and anything is possible. For many generations, people have flocked here to make it big—to mine for gold, drill for oil, find fame in Hollywood, and become dot.com millionaires. But 21st-century Californians look very different from previous generations of Californians—and life in today’s California offers different stumbling blocks and different prospects for success. What are the hopes and dreams of Californians in 2015? How do they differ from those of their parents and grandparents? In advance of the Zócalo event “What is the California Dream Now?,” we asked that very question to people who study, live, and work around the state.

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]]> California has long been seen as a beautiful land of opportunity—a place where the sun is always shining and anything is possible. For many generations, people have flocked here to make it big—to mine for gold, drill for oil, find fame in Hollywood, and become dot.com millionaires. But 21st-century Californians look very different from previous generations of Californians—and life in today’s California offers different stumbling blocks and different prospects for success. What are the hopes and dreams of Californians in 2015? How do they differ from those of their parents and grandparents?

In advance of the Zócalo event “What is the California Dream Now?,” we asked that very question to people who study, live, and work around the state.

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