This.<p>Rich kids are also much better positioned in terms of parental funding and familial social connections to do things that bring them international acclaim afterwards. They then get a platform to tell a worldwide audience about their life story and their parent-subsidized gap year, creating a very distorted view of American culture abroad.<p>In other words, only a tiny percentage of American kids get 10k from their parents to go on vacation in Europe. It&#x27;s just that the international circulation of media that say &quot;I had kids and worked two jobs to be able to pay the bills and never got to go anywhere&quot; is far lower.