For the amuse, not the info
white... labor day... etc
There are certain aspects of The Culture,* mostly at what I consider the high and low ends, which I have, decades ago, learned to gladly ignore, and of which as a rule I am not ashamed to be utterly ignorant.**
*Certain aspects = 90% min.
**I'd read a report from Ace to inform my iggerance - like I'd read a Mad parody of a movie I'd never pay to see, for the amuse, not the info.