I'm glad you never experienced this yourself, and hope you never will. It's perfectly understandable that you don't know something like this that you haven't seen before, but I'm glad that now that you're aware of the context, you're willing to adjust your worldview to accommodate the new knowledge.
This entire conversation is honestly very Western centric, but I hope it can be useful to you in other ways as we continue adjusting the English terminology we use around technology going forward.