I've never understood this whole "real world" angle. There's one world, we all live in it. If my experience is digging ditches and the next person's experience is counting beans, and the next person's is working in a chip shop or a lawyers office, it's all the "real world." It's just different experience. Who gets to say what's "real world" and what's not? Let me guess...people who live in the "real world."
We get that here all the time with some segments of the US labeled as "real Americans," versus...people who live in Hollywood? New York City? "Real Americans" live in between the coasts, apparently, and all the folks on the Eastern seaboard and out in Cali are somehow...not real?
That just keeps people divided.