American HustleOur big brothers, Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson, advanced the state of this brotherhood. We started as mere pledges in the ΣΩβ fraternity, but over time we proved our worth and became kappa leaders. Our battle to become a national power representing Greek life has been hard fought, from our battles with our Greek brethren in the South to our battles with our overseas rivals. Oppression is the hazing process necessary to become an American. American society has fooled you all! They preach words of freedom and opportunity, when you didn't know the whole system was rigged. Opportunity does not open its doors to the Italian immigrant who wishes to establish and continue his family business in America. Opportunity is a discriminator. It chooses those who advance in the social hierarchy, contrary to the ideals of the American Dream, a hope shared by millions who wish to come to America to achieve equality, democracy, and material prosperity. It is actually America's economic and political leaders who choose who can become a successful American. They are greedy creatures who wish to perpetuate their success and their American identity, their famous family career, in their bloodlines. Families like the Rockefellers and the Carnegies, who control industries, force immigrants to conform to America's social inadequacies. They provide their children with the means to succeed, while people who come to America in search of opportunity are handicapped all the way to the bottom of the social ladder. People are throwing away their identity and what little possessions they had just to come to America to deal with the situation. the same oppression they had faced in their home country. A man can be a doctor... middle of paper ......icans. Like Belfort, Jay Gatsby financed his lavish livelihood through means that are unacceptable in society. Gatsby was a bootlegger, a distributor of alcohol during the Prohibition era. It is ironic that a man who achieved high status on the social ladder achieved his goals through illegal activities and is now admired by the other members of American high society around him. "He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of street drugstores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. It's one of his little tricks. I picked him for a bootlegger first time I saw it, and I wasn't very wrong” (Fitzgerald 72). American identity is truly characterized by survival of the fittest, you are either the oppressor or you are under oppression..