Different backgrounds is correct ..one comes from Ohio and the other Kenya.
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One grew up poor and had to scrape and bust arse to be the first college educated in his family. The other grew up fairly well off and college came on a silver platter.
One grew up almost as a spoiled only child (and it shows) the other grew up with lots of brothers and sisters to learn to share and compromise.
One had a solid family background, the other not so much...