American Dream Millionaire

America prides itself on being a classless society where economic status can be transcended by determination and hard work. However since 1970s US had moved from a liberal biopolitic society to neoliberal society where government’s responsibility in responding to social problems has been reduced. As the social services are reduced the poor and elderly population stands in direct contradiction to the ideology of American Dream and the classless society.In fact US has the second lowest level of intergenerational mobility among high income countries and the second lowest wealth equality rate. However Cultural myth and ideology work to mask this contradiction allowing it to exist and slip under the public’s radar. Reality shows on TV offers unscripted Reality TV unscripted representations of people and produces knowledge that instructs audiences 
 and can work to reinforce the idelogy of American Dreams and mediate this contradiction by presenting help to middel class families that are morally good and hardworking people who experince hardships outside of their control fianincally.This essay will argue that

On their final day, the millionaires come clean and reveal their true identity to the people they have chosen, surprising them with gifts of thousands of pounds or US dollars to improve their lives.First of all the show uses direct cinmea and a mix of documentray styles of filming to present the realness of the show. Secondly the show uses a millionaire that works undercover along the charity so the people they help in the show seem more authieic since they do not seem to know the real purpose of the show.Lastly the show uses slef made millionaires because they are successful examples of the American