Law Students

[Explaining why she just recently obtained a passport:] "I'm not one of those who came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world. No, I've worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had kids. I was not a part of, I guess, that culture."

Yeah... so? I've worked full time since I was 17. I worked my way through college, through grad school, through law school. And I've managed multiple trips out of the country. If it was something she'd wanted to do, she could have done it. Don't blame your lack of international travel on the fact that your parents didn't pay for it. It's that same sort of back-handed comment that comes from people who use the "well, my parents couldn't pay for college" excuse why they never got an education. As though no one else had to put themselves through college.

If you never had enough interest in doing something, that you weren't willing to scrimp and save and find a way to do it, then just admit that it wasn't a priority. If she'd answered, "Gosh, I just never had a real desire to go to another country, there were other things I wanted to do instead," then that would be a good, honest answer. Blaming the fact that you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth and had to pay for shit yourself like the majority of Americans, plenty of whom travel abroad, well, that's just ridiculous.