The phrase "a rich background" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used in various contexts to describe a person's or thing's history, experiences, or cultural influences. Example: Jane comes from a rich background of art and literature. Her parents were both successful artists, and she grew up in an environment surrounded by creativity and beauty.
The dressing is applied with precision, like a rich background color, instead of being sloshed on.
Kate Sofis' experience integrates a rich background in entrepreneurship and innovation, manufacturing, and urban economic development.
Bonnie Taft is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) with a rich background in the pediatric primary care setting.
Our everyday conversation takes place against a rich background of unstated expectations — what linguists call "implicatures". Such implicatures can seep into psychological experiments.
This selection of nativity picture books can be given a rich background and a wider context by an anthology of stories to read aloud.
Latimer sets his history of the battle against a rich background of the evolution of British military doctrine, tactics, technology and organization.
She acknowledges there is no reason why someone from a richer background should be a better parent.
Democratic procedures alone, divorced from a richer background, can neither generate nor sustain a robust political culture or a sense of common identity.
"When we start out in 1910 we have a fairly rich background to draw from – we've got Brecht's Threepenny Opera which was set around that time, we've got all of those wonderful occult characters that were being created around then.
"What it does is, it gives you a really rich background to go to, to analyze things, to think about things, to put in context what you would do in a way that if you don't know history, you can't possibly reinvent it," he told Iowa Public Radio this year.
"But she made sure that we basically be Somali first and then American second, and know that we come from a very rich background and we shouldn't lose that just because we're here". Beyond the controlled environment of the home, it can be hard to find ways to preserve a culture.
