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Ambition session notes: Immigration by kristinmarting
April 15, 2010, 8:29 pm
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Ambition Think Tank, photo by Carl Skutsch

Ambition Think Tank photo by Carl Skutsch

Immigration   – Notetaker:  Clyde Valentine

Ambition   desire   obsession

destructive

anti-ambition

Immigrant

1st generation

2nd generation

American dream

Tradition – Family-Home

What people want?

Points of contact?

Family

Americanism

That’s why they call it the American Dream – You have to be asleep to believe it.

Ambition

Personal or Universal

Immigrants conflate ambition

Romanticizing of culture…

Food/cook

Transience

What’s left behind?

Ambition  : wikipedia definition : Desire for personal achievement

Vidu/Rudi

Core

Time/patterns define the process…

Conception

Money…

American Empire

Feed into the myth and dream..

Ambition = Ladder

Races

Race as Institutionalization

Truth is the myth

Geography deterring sense and place

Personal v. universal

Ambition and its outward expression

Native v. immigrant

Ambition does not equal success

Immigration as a point of failure

Having to move out of necessity

Dancer

Actor

Other

-subculture

-collapse of a dream…

churn

machine

ambition what does it serve?

It’s complicated!

Corporate

Machinations

Perpetuating

Ambitions

Ambition:

Giving up vs. gaining


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