Comment by EdgeExplorer

I think awareness is the main point here.

At some level, it doesn't actually matter if these labels are correct or generalize a culture or anything else. It does matter if people genuinely feel the things described and if other people are genuinely unaware of those feelings.

We are each inherently limited in our perspective by being an individual. It's helpful to be exposed to other ways of thinking, and it's helpful to have ways of conceptualizing differences in thinking for future reference.

"Ask/guess" doesn't have to be *true*, it just has to be useful as a heuristic.