What is the American dream? Is today American dream based on materialism? Or is it based on the idea of freedom?

The American dream can be anything mostly about freedom. it can be about money or freedom

The American Dream is the ideal that he government should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their own idea of happiness. This is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking and hard work, not by chance.

At this moment America is a nation obsessed with shopping and buying unnecessary products. People are no longer satisfied with a nice house and a couple of cars but are almost sick with a constant need for more, more and more no matter what the cost. (Shanzeh Khurram).

Under this statement above mentioned the American Dream is based on materialism.