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California Dream is the psychological motivation to gain fast wealth or fame in a new land. As a result of the California Gold Rush after 1849, California's name became indelibly connected with the Gold Rush, and fast success in a new world became known as the "California Dream."〔Kevin Starr, ''Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915'' (1986)〕 California was perceived as a place of new beginnings, where great wealth could reward hard work and good luck. The notion inspired the idea of an American Dream. California was seen as a lucky place, a land of opportunity and good fortune. It was a powerful belief, underlying many of the accomplishments of the state, and equally potent when threatened.〔Starr,'' Americans and the California Dream'' and Starr, ''Inventing the Dream'' (1985)〕 Historian H. W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation: : Overnight California gained the international reputation as the "golden state"—with gold and lawlessness the main themes.〔Robert A. Burchell, "The Loss of a Reputation; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875," ''California Historical Quarterly'' 53 (Summer I974): 115-30, shows that stories about Gold Rush lawlessness deterred immigration for two decades.〕 ==Migrants== Generations of immigrants have been attracted by the California Dream. California farmers,〔Starr, 2005), p. 110.〕 oil drillers,〔See, e.g.,'' Signal Hill, California, Bakersfield, California; Los Angeles, California〕 movie makers,〔Leading studios include 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and United Artists〕 aerospace corporations 〔Such as Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, North American Aviation, Northrop, and Lockheed Aircraft.〕 and "dot-com" entrepreneurs have each had their boom times in the decades after the Gold Rush. Part of the "California Dream" was "that every family could have its own private home."〔Warren A. Beck, David A. Williams, ''California: a history of the Golden State'' (1972) Page 487〕〔Elisabeth Orr, "Joy Neugebauer Purchasing the California Dream in Postwar Suburbia," ch 12 in ''The human tradition in California'' ed. by Clark Davis, David Igler (2002)〕 As Starr has pointed out, for many if not most migrants to the golden state, "the dream outran the reality."〔Starr (1985) p. viii〕 The Okies of the 1930s "found their California dream transformed into a nightmare,' notes Walter Stein.〔Walter Stein, ''California and the Dust Bowl Migration'' (1973) Page 26〕 As a result, "the California Dream is a love affair with an idea, a marriage to a myth" 〔Claudia K. Jurmain, ''California: a place, a people, a dream'' (1986) p. 141〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「California Dream」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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