"the one that blue tick twitter accounts living in certain pin codes of Bengaluru passionately discuss amongst themselves for a week every year"
To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?
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To someone embarrassingly unfamiliar with Indian culture, what does it mean?
Sure, these are probably all hints to affluent members of society but I was hoping for a more detailed explanation.
PIN codes = postal codes.
But while we are at it: What is the significance of a cow trading app. Is it used by people who treat cows as sacred or the opposite?
I expected something more along the lines of:
There is this cultural group some people refer to as WASPs, but they usually would not self-apply that designation. They are not a formal organization but more a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification.
Their cultural lives (and to a large degree their business processes) are organized along an annual cycle starting shortly after the northern winter solstice, even though they claim this is the date of birth of their religious leader. During that time and before a new cycle starts, their businesses practically come to a standstill for a week of celebrations.
A certain subgroup of them has become highly influential in the tech industry. Their most prominent leaders and their companies often gather in and around the zip codes 94024, 94040, 94301, 95014, 95030 in an area called "Silicon Valley."