<P> (1) belief that other nations could and should replicate America's own developmental experience; (2) faith in private free enterprise; (3) support for free or open access for trade and investment; (4) promotion of free flow of information and culture; and (5) growing acceptance of (U.S.) governmental activity to protect private enterprise and to stimulate and regulate American participation in international economic and cultural exchange . </P> <P> Knights and McCabe argued American management gurus have taken the lead in exporting the ideas: "By the latter half of the twentieth century they were truly global and through them the American Dream continues to be transmitted, repackaged and sold by an infantry of consultants and academics backed up by an artillery of books and videos". </P> <P> In West Germany after World War II, says Pommerin, "the most intense motive was the longing for a better life, more or less identical with the American dream, which also became a German dream". Cassamagnaghi argues that to women in Italy after 1945, films and magazine stories about American life offered an "American dream ." New York City especially represented a sort of utopia where every sort of dream and desire could become true . Italian women saw a model for their own emancipation from second class status in their patriarchal society . </P> <P> The American dream regarding home ownership had little resonance before the 1980s . In the 1980s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher worked to create a similar dream, by selling public - housing units to their tenants . Her Conservative Party called for more home ownership: "HOMES OF OUR OWN: To most people ownership means first and foremost a home of their own...We should like in time to improve on existing legislation with a realistic grants scheme to assist first - time buyers of cheaper homes ." Guest calls this Thatcher's approach to the American Dream . Knights and McCabe argue that, "a reflection and reinforcement of the American Dream has been the emphasis on individualism as extolled by Margaret Thatcher and epitomized by the' enterprise' culture ." </P>

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