Students are students no matter what country you are in or their ecconomic background

So I just finished my second day with my students and I am teaching my beloved middle schoolers (there has to be some kind of sadistic reason I love working with middle schoolers).  I am in a foreign country teaching students from some of the most prominent families in town and I have come to realize that they are not much different than my kids from North Memphis.  Please don't misunderstand, I know there are significant differences between my students here and back home.  But at their core, they are the same.  They like some of the same things: PlayStation, the same kind of music, the same kind of movies.  They also just want to be kids.  My students here walk to talk and play in class, they want to run around in the halls.......they want to be kids. 
Its too bad that their differences will probably always keep them so separate.  One sad thing is that the world is made up of the have and the have nots in every culture and country.  My kids here probably have no idea about the real America.  From the few things they have said to me about what they know (or think they know) they think that most people in America are rich and that couldn't be further from the truth.  I think it could be a powerful thing if I could somehow introduce my students here in Turkey to my kids back in Memphis.............it could open some eyes to a culture that they may not know about.  They could also learn that they may look differently, talk differently, and have different ecconomic backgrounds, but they also have many things in common.